Distributed systems today are very vulnerable to malicious attacks, either from insiders or outsiders. When an attacker controls a component of the system, he may steal some sensi...
Access control (AC) technology has come a long way from its roots as the means for sharing resources between processes running on a single machine, to a mechanism for regulating t...
This paper describes the architecture of a distributed workflow management system in a dynamic environment. The system features autonomous agent components that can adapt to both s...
Maryam Purvis, Martin K. Purvis, Azhar Haidar, Bas...
Abstract—For a complex distributed system to be dependable, it must be continuously monitored, so that its failures and imperfections can be discovered and corrected in a timely ...
Constantin Serban, Wenxuan Zhang, Naftaly H. Minsk...
Presented here is a computational system which uses free−space optical interconnect (FSOI) communication between processing elements to perform distributed calculations. Technolo...
Jeremy Ekman, Christoph Berger, Fouad E. Kiamilev,...