— Trust management, broadly intended as the ability to maintain belief relationship among entities, is recognized as a fundamental security challenge for autonomous and selforgan...
As a result of the changing scope of data management towards the management of highly distributed systems and applications, integration processes have gained in imporuch integrati...
Computing and telecommunications are maturing, and the next century promises a shift away from technology-driven general-purpose devices. Instead, we will focus on the needs of co...
Mike Esler, Jeffrey Hightower, Thomas E. Anderson,...
The venerable problem solving technique of simulation finds itself inthe midstof a revolution. Where once it was regarded as a "technique of last resort" for systems ana...
Richard M. Weatherly, Annette L. Wilson, Bradford ...
This paper presents an innovative approach to solve the problem of missing transparency of competencies within virtual organizations. We based our work on empirical studies to cop...