Trust Brokerage Systems for the Internet
This thesis addresses the problem of providing trusted individuals with confidential information about other individuals, in particular, granting access to
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This thesis addresses the problem of providing trusted individuals with confidential information about other individuals, in particular, granting access to
Random beacons-information sources that broadcast a stream of random digits unknown by anyone beforehand-are useful for various cryptographic purposes. But
By harvesting friendship networks from e-mail contacts or instant message "buddy lists" Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications can improve performance in low
The past century of interstellar dust has brought us from first ignoring it to finding that it is an important
We introduce the use, monitoring, and enforcement of integrity constraints in trust management-style authorization systems. We consider what portions of
A challenging problem in the social sciences is the characterization of the formation of ``social capital''. It is believed that
In recent years it has become possible to study the properties of nanocrystalline metals through atomic-scale simulations of systems with
Ad hoc networks rely on the cooperation of the nodes participating in the network to forward packets for each other.
We model a private key`s life cycle as a finite state machine. The states are the key`s phases of life
The problem of answering queries posed to a peer who is a member of a peer-to-peer data exchange system is
Logs are one of the most fundamental resources to any security professional. It is widely recognized by the government and
Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set
Registration and management of users in a large scale Grid computing environment presents new challenges that are not well addressed
In light of the rise of malicious attacks on the Internet, and the various networks and applications attached to it,
The shift towards the use of electronic media in scholarly communication appears to be an inescapable imperative. However, these shifts
LogicWeb mobile code consists of Prolog-like rules embedded in Web pages, thereby adding logic programming behaviour to those pages. Since
Grid computing is concerned with the sharing and coordinated use of diverse resources in distributed "virtual organizations." The dynamic and
The ``reliability horizon'' for semi-classical quantum gravity quantifies the extent to which we should trust semi-classical quantum gravity, and gives
Vibrant development of a network-based economy requires separating investment in highly location specific local access technology from the development of