This paper maintains that for an access-control mechanism to support a wide range of policies, it is best to dispense with any built-in semantics for roles in the mechanism itself...
Emerging trust and risk management systems provide a framework for principals to determine whether they will exchange resources, without requiring a complete definition of their ...
The file-bundle caching problem arises frequently in scientific applications where jobs process several files concurrently. Consider a host system in a data-grid that maintains...
Cluster-based storage systems are popular for data-intensive applications and it is desirable yet challenging to provide incremental expansion and high availability while achievin...
Hong Tang, Aziz Gulbeden, Jingyu Zhou, William Str...
We propose a new configuration language, component and service library, and compiler that make it easier to develop efficient sensor network applications. Our goal is the constr...