Ethnography has become a staple feature of IT research over the last twenty years, shaping our understanding of the social character of computing systems and informing their desig...
Andy Crabtree, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Pa...
Unstructured peer-to-peer lookup systems incur small constant overhead per single join or leave operation, and can easily support keyword searches. Hence, they are suitable for dy...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...
The widespread use of Grid technology and distributed compute power, with all its inherent benefits, will only be established if the use of that technology can be guaranteed effic...
Mega grids span several continents and may consist of millions of nodes and billions of tasks executing at any point in time. This setup calls for scalable and highly available re...