One of the most difficult problems to be solved by metacomputing systems is to ensure strong authentication and authorization. The problem is complicated since the hosts involved ...
Persistent programming languages manage volatile memory as a cache for stable storage, imposing a read barrier on operations that access the cache, and a write barrier on updates ...
Antony L. Hosking, Nathaniel Nystrom, Quintin I. C...
The protection of personal health information has become a live issue in a number of countries including the USA, Canada, Britain and Germany. The debate has shown that there is w...
Our experience with Internet-based scientific collaboratories indicates that they need to be user-extensible, allow users to add tools and objects dynamically to shared workspaces...
Jang Ho Lee, Atul Prakash, Trent Jaeger, Gwobaw Wu
Being increasingly equipped with highly-accurate positioning technologies, today's mobile phones enable their owners to transmit their current position over the cellular netwo...