The simplicity of the basic client/server model of Web services led quickly to its widespread adoption, but also to scalability and performance problems. The technological respons...
Micah Beck, Terry Moore, Leif Abrahamsson, Christo...
e-Science has much to benefit from the emerging field of grid computing. However, construction of e-Science grids is a complex and inefficient undertaking. In particular, deployme...
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...
An increasing number of mission-critical, embedded, telecommunications, and financial distributed systems are being developed using distributed object computing middleware, such a...
Balachandran Natarajan, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Shal...
Through web service technology, distributed applications can be built in a exible manner, bringing tremendous power to applications on the web. However, this exibility poses sig...