In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
The provenance of a piece of data is of utility to a wide range of applications. Its availability can be drastically increased by automatically collecting lineage information duri...
—In an adversarial environment, various kinds of security attacks become possible if malicious nodes could claim fake locations that are different from where they are physically ...
A P2P currency can be a powerful tool for promoting exchanges in a trusted way that make use of under-utilized resources both in computer networks and in real life. There are thre...
Mobile agent systems provide new perspectives for distributed e-commerce applications. Sea-of-Data (SoD) applications are those that need to process huge quantities of distributed...
Guillermo Navarro, Joan Borrell, Jose A. Ortega-Ru...