: True integration of large systems requires sharing of information stored in databases beyond sharing of pure data: business rules associated with this data must be shared also. T...
We describe an agent-based situation-aware survivable architecture for the discovery and composition of web services. Our architecture provides for proofs that guaranteethe consis...
Computer forensic analysis, intrusion detection and disaster recovery are all dependent on the existence of trustworthy log files. Current storage systems for such log files are...
This paper introduces a new concept of information that can exist in a mobile environment with no fixed infrastructure and centralized servers, which we call the Hovering Informati...
Abstract. Distributed or peer-to-peer storage solutions rely on the introduction of redundant data to be fault-tolerant and to achieve high reliability. One way to introduce redund...