Agents are an emerging technology that grants programmers a new way to exploit distributed resources. Roles are a powerful concept that can be used to model agent interactions, all...
As computing models change, so too do the demands on storage. Distributed and virtualized systems introduce new vulnerabilities, assumptions, and performance requirements on disks...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...
The basic idea behind delegation is that some active entity in a system delegates authority to another active entity in order to carry out some functions on behalf of the former. ...
Business Process Management (BPM) is often a key component of the business change. Business rules, whether embedded within BPM or on their own, have begun playing an ever-increasi...
Internet protocols encapsulate a significant amount of state, making implementing the host software complex. In this paper, we define the Statecall Policy Language (SPL) which pr...