Programmers of large-scale trusted systems need tools to simplify tasks such as replicating services or data. Group communication systems achieve this via various flavors of relia...
As heterogeneous distributed systems, multi-agent systems present some challenging con guration management issues. There are the problems of knowing how to allocate agents to comp...
Joseph A. Giampapa, Octavio H. Juarez-Espinosa, Ka...
Location-Based Services (LBS) are gaining importance due to the advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies. Nevertheless, the wide deployment of LBS can jeopardise th...
Agusti Solanas, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Antoni Mart&...
Firewalls are a cornerstone of todays security infrastructure for networks. Their configuration, implementing a firewall policy, is inherently complex, hard to understand, and diff...
Firewalls are the cornerstones of network security. To make firewalls working effectively, firewall manager must design firewall rules and the rule order correctly. In this paper, ...