In this paper, we explore flexible name resolution as a way of supporting extensibility for wide-area distributed services. Our approach, called Active Names, maps names to a cha...
Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas E. Anderson, A...
Designing applications with timeliness requirements in environments of uncertain synchrony is known to be a difficult problem. In this paper, we follow the perspective of timing ...
Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) is a general framework for verifying the safety properties of machine-language programs. PCC proofs are usually written in a logic extended with language...
Nadeem Abdul Hamid, Zhong Shao, Valery Trifonov, S...
The management of policies in large-scale systems is complex because of the potentially large number of policies and administrators, as well as the diverse types of information th...
Nicodemos Damianou, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Mor...
The need for collaboration and information sharing has been recently growing dramatically with the convergence of outsourcing and offshoring, the increasing need to cut costs thro...