Network service providers purchase large point-to-point connections from network owners, then offer individual users network access at a price. Appropriately provisioning (purchas...
This paper argues that Napoleon, a flexible, role-based access control (RBAC) modeling environment, is also a practical solution for enforcing business process control, or workflo...
Charles N. Payne, D. J. Thomsen, J. Bogle, Richard...
: Fault management in high performance cluster networks has been focused on the notion of hard faults (i.e., link or node failures). Network degradations that negatively impact per...
Jeffrey J. Evans, Seongbok Baik, Cynthia S. Hood, ...
Distributed systems increasingly span organizational boundaries and, with this, system and service management domains. Web services are the primary means of exposing services to c...
Bruno Wassermann, Heiko Ludwig, Jim Laredo, Kamal ...
Managing trust is a problem of particular importance in peer-to-peer environments where one frequently encounters unknown agents. Existing methods for trust management, that are b...