Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...
Abstract. Synchronous collaborative systems allow geographically distributed participants to form a virtual work environment enabling cooperation between peers and enriching the hu...
Gareth J. Lewis, S. Mehmood Hasan, Vassil N. Alexa...
: The most important aspect of concurrent and distributed computation is the interaction between system components. Integration of components into a system requires some synchroniz...
Gilberto Matos, James M. Purtilo, Elizabeth L. Whi...
Distributed computing middleware needs to support a wide range of resources, such as diverse software components, various hardware devices, and heterogeneous operating systems and...
Han Gao, Ivan R. Judson, Thomas D. Uram, Terry Dis...
Abstract. With the continuously growing number of distributed and heterogeneous IT systems there is the need for structured and efficient identity management (IdM) processes. This ...