—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
Resource pools are computing environments that offer virtualized access to shared resources. When used effectively they can align the use of capacity with business needs (flexi...
Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Martin F. Arlitt,...
We consider the problem of increasing the availability of shared data in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems so that users can access any content, regardless of the current subset of onlin...
Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Richard P. Martin, ...
In this paper we present Trishul-UCON (T-UCON), a DRM system based on the UCONABC model. T-UCON is designed to be capable of enforcing not only application-specific policies, as a...
Srijith Krishnan Nair, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Gabrie...
Software watermarking is a new research area that aims at providing copyright protection for commercial software. It minimizes software piracy by hiding copyright signatures inside...