... ; Abdul‐Rahman and Hailes, 2000). Trust Modelling Distributed databases Computer networks Trust and reputation management has arisen in the last few years as an innovative strategy in order to deal with the lack of centralised entities in purely and highly distributed environments...

..., there is a number of commonly accepted principles and practices that should be followed by entities that need to manage personal data, while, at the same time, taking individual privacy into account, as will be shown in the following paragraphs. Intelligence Privacy Data security Computer networks ©...

... safe. Originality/value The proposed key management scheme described in the paper outperforms the previous random key pre‐distribution schemes by: considerably reducing the storage requirement, and providing more resiliency against node capture and collusion attacks. Computer networks Sensors...

... and the internet from the point of view of security. It identifies both solutions and research challenges. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Computer networks Wireless Data security Integration Internet If a computer system needs to obtain data from a certain environment, one...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Computer networks Data security Communication technologies Local area networks The home network is a new IT technology environment offering convenient, safe, and pleasant lives to users, making possible the provision of a variety of home network...

... technologies Computer networks The ubiquitous proximity e‐service can be treated as a new scope of ubiquitous e‐services that highlight the collective effort of proximity participants within a ubiquitous environment. Due to the dynamicity and complexity present in the ubiquitous world...

... from conventional search engines is essential. This paper describes the evaluation data and the prototype system WISDOM that constitutes an information credibility analysis system based on natural language processing. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Computer networks Data...

.... Personal communication networks Search and rescue Internet Computer networks This illustration shows how even in a simple Nested NEMO scenario where only two mobile networks are connected to together, packet transfer will follow a highly suboptimal path. For a packet to be sent from Node...

... and will be of interest to those in the same field. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Computer networks User interfaces Communication technologies Control technology In recent years, we have experienced the emergence of federated approaches to resource sharing. In these approaches, trust links...

... and e‐science. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Wavelengths Computer networks Sciences Computer applications CPL and DRAC provisioning times are currently not short enough to guarantee the desired reconfiguration speed. The configuration times are in the order of minutes...

... from time to time. Nowadays, the configuration of the scenario described above would be set up statically or it would have been pre‐configured by an operations network engineer. Computer networks Configuration management Bandwidths Computer software Graphical user interfaces When...

... and the safety capacity and either propagates the query to its neighbours or answers by extracting at least the requested capacity from the Node Pool. In the latter case it notifies directly the query originator with the IP addresses of the nodes that provide the requested capacity. Computer networks...

.... Computer software Employee behavior Computer communications software Computer networks The use of the DIOS has had dramatic consequences for work process, work relations and work division within and between partner‐organizations and has raised fundamental macro‐level questions (Kurnia...

... architecture and associated protocols that are conducive to providing mutually anonymous services. Computer networks Privacy This section defines the problem of mutual anonymity in the context of DHT based systems. We compare the DHT overlays with Gnutella‐like random topologies and explore...

... messages without getting known by mixes; the attacker can inject fake messages to flood the mix; and the attacker can identify the fake messages he generated at the outputting side. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Privacy computer networks With the worldwide growth...

... to the information – another example of controlling, who gets access to that shared information. Computer networks Privacy Safety devices © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Masquerading, a common vulnerability identified by currently available IDS technology, is also a concern...

... a resource discovery system by building a timeline structure on demand, which will be of interest to both researchers and system implementers in the fields of grid computing, peer‐to‐peer networks and distributed resource discovery in general. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Computer...

... Computer networks Control systems Message authentication Data security Recent rapid advances in high‐speed networking technologies, along with the rise of the Internet and the emergence of e‐business have made it possible to construct computations that integrate resources located at multiple...

... Object‐oriented computing Communications Computer networks MUDs (multi‐user domains) and MOOs (MUDs object‐oriented) offer an interesting combination of synchronous and asynchronous communication mechanisms. People using a MOO can chat with one another, but the database that underlies the MOO...

... accessibility. The MAMAS compliance with CORBA ensures interoperability with legacy management platforms. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Computer networks Security WWW The OSI committees are still engaged in the definition of standards in the management area. The handling of large...