Abstract. Recent years have seen unprecedented growth in the popularity of social network systems, with Facebook being an archetypical example. The access control paradigm behind t...
Peer-to-peer grids aim to build computational grids encompassing thousands of sites. To achieve this scale, such systems cannot rely on trust or off-line negotiations among partic...
Miranda Mowbray, Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, Nazar...
To sustain perpetual operation, systems that harvest environmental energy must carefully regulate their usage to satisfy their demand. Regulating energy usage is challenging if a s...
Navin Sharma, Jeremy Gummeson, David Irwin, Prasha...
We propose a computational model motivated by human cognitive processes for detecting changes of driving environments. The model, call dynamic visual model, consists of three majo...
When implementing an application system in a distributed computing environment, several architectural questions arise such as, how and where computing resources are distributed, a...