The growing interest in ad hoc wireless network applications that are made of large and dense populations of lightweight system resources calls for scalable approaches to fault to...
Scheduling and load-balancing techniques play an integral role in reducing the overall execution time of scientific applications on clustered multi-node systems. The increasing co...
S. P. Muszala, Gita Alaghband, Daniel A. Connors, ...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...
Efficient data management is a key component in achieving good performance for scientific workflows in distributed environments. Workflow applications typically communicate data be...
Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...