A digital library system consists of LVS(Linux Virtual Server) operating with software clustering technology provides is designed on Linux environment. In the cluster of servers fa...
In this paper we formulate the static load balancing problem in single class job distributed systems as a cooperative game among computers. It is shown that the Nash Bargaining So...
Daniel Grosu, Anthony T. Chronopoulos, Ming-Ying L...
In this paper, a practical electronic-payment (epayment) protocol is presented for use over the internet. The protocol applies the principle of true fair-exchange to the process o...
The fair exchange problem is key to trading electronic items in systems of mutually untrusted parties. In modern variants of such systems, each party is equipped with a security mo...
Efficiency of optimistic fair exchange using trusted devices is studied. Pfitzmann, Schunter and Waidner (PODC 1998) have shown that four messages in the main sub-protocol is op...