This paper presents an opportunistic encryption scheme strictly layered on top of IPv6. Assuming that a node needs to send data toward another node, our proposal enables the dynamic configuration of an encrypted tunnel between the two nodes’ IPsec gateways. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a solution that is fully distributed and does not rely on any global Trusted Third Party ...

Although abortion services are readily available in large urban areas to those able to pay, a 1993 survey of U.S. abortion providers shows that access to service is still problematic for many women because of barriers related to distance, gestation limits, costs and harassment. Among women who have nonhospital abortions, an estimated 24% travel at least 50 miles from their home to the abortion ...

In this work we present a framework for multi-agent system design which is based both on human organizational notions and principles for distributed intelligent systems design. The framework elaborates on the idea that notions from the field of organizational design can be used as the basis for the design of distributed intelligent systems. Concepts such as task, control, job, operation, manage...