... will reach the same values for their respective global trust vectors by applying the notion of transitive trust. Gregorio Martínez Pérez can be contacted at: gregorio@um.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Trust Modelling Distributed databases Computer networks Trust...

...). Maria Karyda can be contacted at: mka@aegean.gr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Intelligence Privacy Data security Computer networks Ubiquitous computing (UC) refers to environments where most physical objects are enhanced with digital qualities. It implies that small...

... Limited 2009 Computer networks Sensors Cryptography Data security Blundo et al. (1993) propose several schemes that allow any group of t parties to compute a common key, while being secure against collusion between some of them. These schemes focus on saving communication...

... Communication technologies Computer networks The ongoing developments of ubiquitous commerce have brought human life into a new era. Classic social science studies long ago demonstrated that proximity frequently increases the rate of individuals communicating and affiliating in organizations...

... 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...

... a neutral attitude in authentication process. © 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...

... Limited 2008 Computer networks Data analysis Prototypes Computer software The development of computers and computer networks has made a variety of information available via the web. Using the web to research topics and learn new words has become a familiar daily occurrence. However...

... and the capabilities it can provide, highlight how these properties can benefit our mountain rescue scenario and introduce other examples of mobility scenarios that could benefit from this technology. Personal communication networks Search and rescue Internet Computer networks © Emerald Group...

... 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...

... 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 It has been shown that UCLP can be used as a traditional GUI‐based management...

... the job and its context to the resource. Georgios Exarchakos can contacted at: g.exarchakos@surrey.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Computer networks Semantics The architecture of Peer‐to‐Peer (P2P) networks can be described as being the opposite...

..., and makes a decision on eligibility. Computer software Employee behavior Computer communications software Computer networks Inter‐organization systems (IOS) are typically defined as the automated information systems shared by two or more organizations (Payton and Ginzberg, 2001...

... that an (n‐1) attack is taking place. Now we describe the RG mix protocol and evaluate its security properties. Privacy computer networks With the worldwide growth of Internet and the explosion of Internet population, privacy and security are becoming more and more critical for the Internet...

... against these attacks. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Computer networks Privacy Mutual anonymity refers to the property of peers being unable to identify the origin (initiator) or destination (responder) of a message. While most unstructured P2P systems like Gnutella...

... 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...

... enforcer then sends a reply whether the request was granted or rejected. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Computer networks Privacy Safety devices Personal privacy is often defined in terms of control: one has privacy to the extent that one exerts control over one's personal...

... 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...

..., we are focusing on a set of community‐oriented applications, including a virtual science fair. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Multi‐user computing Object‐oriented computing Communications Computer networks With this flexible object replication scheme, MOOsburg can support a variety...

... accessibility. The MAMAS compliance with CORBA ensures interoperability with legacy management platforms. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Computer networks Security WWW Many organisations face the problem of managing their distributed and heterogeneous systems that are composed of a large number...