The World Wide Web has transformed itself in the last few years from a simple state-less multimedia platform to a global distributed processing environment. As Web computing gains...
This paper presents a brief overview of a framework for the interactive steering of distributed applications that addresses three key issues: (1) Definition of Interaction Object...
The objectives of the CATI project (Charging and Accounting Technology for the Internet) include the design, implementation, and evaluation of charging and accounting mechanisms f...
Certificate management infrastructure, a.k.a. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), which issues and provides access to public key certificates to preserve the integrity of a public ke...
Predictability is crucial in critical applications and systems. Therefore, we examine sources of uncertainty for each of the four phases that span a project lifecycle, from initial...