Disk performance is increasingly limited by its head positioning latencies, i.e., seek time and rotational delay. To reduce the head positioning latencies, we propose a novel tech...
We introduce the concept, model, and policy-specific algorithms for inferring new access control decisions from previous ones. Our secondary and approximate authorization model (...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
BMS organizes information in abstract name spaces and lets users refer to thedatathroughtheirvalues,whileaspatialDBMSorganizesinformationinconcrete 2D geometric spaces and lets use...
A challenging issue facing Grid communities is that while Grids can provide access to many heterogeneous resources, the resources to which access is provided often do not match th...
Ian T. Foster, Timothy Freeman, Katarzyna Keahey, ...