infonet-economy

If the Swiss experience with trusts is notable in any way, it must be because, over the last two decades of the 20th century, we eagerly embraced a legal institution with so few roots in the recent civil law tradition, and we did so without purporting to create an equivalent instrument under Swiss law. Why and how we embraced it, what difficulties we faced in doing so, what came out...

The first part of the paper describes the design of a service module that assists customers with the leasing of cloud computing services by taking into account their require- ments on service provisioning. The service module introduces basic service level management functionality within a larger framework. The framework is illustrated as a web platform and uses a trusted third party...

This thesis proposes a new type of information, called hovering information, which is stored in geographical regions and does not rely on any infrastructure but on the mobile devices that populate the respective geographical region, its anchor area. A storage and two retrieval algorithms are proposed. They take advantage of the broadcasting nature of mobile ad hoc networks while...

Reputation Management is rather a new field in the realm of computer security. This is mainly due to the fact that computers and software are more and more involved in open networks. In these open networks, any encountered user may become part of the user base and associated interactions even if there is no a priori information about those new users. The greater openness of these...