Wenbing Zhao

The use of good random numbers is crucial to the security of many mission-critical systems. However, when such systems are replicated for Byzantine fault tolerance, a serious...

In this chapter, the authors present the justification and a feasibility study of applying the Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) technology to electric power grid health...

Microsoft Kinect is one of the most popular inexpensive gadgets released in recent years. Kinect is equipped with a color camera, a depth camera, and a microphone array. The...

In this chapter, the authors present their work on a validation study of using Microsoft Kinect to monitor rehabilitation exercises. Differing from other validation efforts, the...

In this chapter, the authors point out the threats to online gaming applications and present two strategies that can be used to build secure and dependable online gaming...

The authors believe that the research and development of intrusion tolerant systems will gain more momentum as more and more services are offered online. The expectation of such...

In this chapter, the authors present an overview of recent works on enhancing the trustworthiness of web services coordination for business activities and transactions. The...

The use of good random numbers is crucial to the security of many mission-critical systems. However, when such systems are replicated for Byzantine fault tolerance, a serious...

In this article, we point out the threats to online gaming applications and present two strategies that can be used to build secure and dependable online gaming applications....

In this chapter, we present the justification and a feasibility study of applying the Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) technology to electric power grid health monitoring. We...

We believe that the research and development of intrusion tolerant systems will gain more momentum as more and more services are offered online. The expectation of such services...

Microsoft Kinect is one of the most popular inexpensive gadgets released in recent years. Kinect is equipped with a color camera, a depth camera, and a microphone array. The...

In this article, we present our work on a validation study of using Microsoft Kinect to monitor rehabilitation exercises. Differing from other validation efforts, we focus on a...

In this article, we present an overview of our recent works on enhancing the trustworthiness of Web services coordination for business activities and transactions. The approach...

The International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) focuses on integration techniques, methods, and tools employed in applied distributed computing systems...

This chapter describes a novel reservation-based extended transaction protocol for coordination of tasks within a business activity. With the advance of Web Services, it is...

Web services can be used to automate business activities that span multiple enterprises over the Internet. Such business activities require a coordination protocol to reach...