Object-oriented technologies are frequently used to design and implement distributed applications. Object replication is a well-established approach to increase the dependability f...
Multimedia, especially video, is widely used in educational applications. More and more universities and corporations now provide videotaped lectures online for knowledge sharing ...
Ming Lin, Jinwei Cao, Christopher B. R. Diller, Ja...
The Grid approach provides the ability to access and use distributed resources as part of virtual organizations. The emerging Grid infrastructure gives rise to a class of scientif...
Rashid J. Al-Ali, Gregor von Laszewski, Kaizar Ami...
In order to provide a general access control methodology for parts of XML documents, we propose combining rolebased access control as found in the Role Graph Model, with a methodo...
In this paper, we identify the different roles and contract types which are important in providing Quality of Service (QoS) properties of component-based systems. A surprising res...