Recently a bulk of research [14, 5, 15, 9] has been done on the modelling of the smallworld phenomenon, which has been shown to be pervasive in social and nature networks, and eng...
—In this work we study the problem of query privacy in large scale sensor networks. Motivated by a novel trust model in which clients query networks owned by trusted entities but...
An increasing number of enterprises outsource their IT services to third parties who can offer these services for a much lower cost due to economy of scale. Quality of service is ...
tive Guidance Strategy for Abstraction-Guided Simulation Flavio M. De Paula Alan J. Hu Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, {depaulfm, ajh}@cs.ubc.ca D...
Getting agents in the Internet, and in networks in general, to invest in and deploy security features and protocols is a challenge, in particular because of economic reasons arisi...