With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliab...
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Mal...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
We propose the role-and-relation-based access control (R2 BAC) model for workflow systems. In R2 BAC, in addition to a user's role memberships, the user's relationships w...
The creation of parameter study suites has recently become a more challenging problem as the parameter studies have become multi-tiered and the computational environment has becom...
Maurice Yarrow, Karen M. McCann, Rupak Biswas, Rob...
The Java programming language and environment is stimulating new research activities in many areas of computing, not the least of which is parallel computing. Parallel techniques ...