Distributed Virtual Computer (DVC) is a computing environment which simplifies the development and execution of distributed applications on computational grids. DVC provides a sim...
Programmers of large-scale trusted systems need tools to simplify tasks such as replicating services or data. Group communication systems achieve this via various flavors of relia...
As heterogeneous distributed systems, multi-agent systems present some challenging con guration management issues. There are the problems of knowing how to allocate agents to comp...
Joseph A. Giampapa, Octavio H. Juarez-Espinosa, Ka...
Location-Based Services (LBS) are gaining importance due to the advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies. Nevertheless, the wide deployment of LBS can jeopardise th...
Agusti Solanas, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Antoni Mart&...
Firewalls are a cornerstone of todays security infrastructure for networks. Their configuration, implementing a firewall policy, is inherently complex, hard to understand, and diff...