We propose a novel method, based on concepts from expander graphs, to sample communities in networks. We show that our sampling method, unlike previous techniques, produces subgra...
The deployment of Next-Generation Networks (NGN) is a challenge that requires integrating heterogeneous services into a global system of All-IP telecommunications. These networks c...
Igor Ruiz-Agundez, Yoseba K. Penya, Pablo Garcia B...
In distributed environments, statements from a number of principals, besides the central trusted party, may influence the derivations of authorization decisions. However, existin...
—Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centrali...
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Peter L. Reiher, Leonard ...
— This paper examines the decentralized recognition of groups within a multiagent normative society in dynamic environments. In our case, a social group is defined based on the ...