The centralised management of distributed computing infrastructures presents a number of considerable challenges, not least of which is the effective monitoring of physical resour...
Event dissemination in large scale dynamic systems is typically claimed to be best achieved using decentralized peer-to-peer architectures. The rationale is to have every particip...
In this paper, a practical and secure e-mail system (called “PractiSES”) that performs public key distribution and management in a unique way is proposed. PractiSES is a networ...
Resource discovery in a Grid environment is a critical problem, as a typical Grid system includes a very large number of resources, which must be readily identified and accessed ...
As the basic sciences become increasingly information-intensive, the management and use of research data presents new challenges in the collective activities that constitute schola...