Conventional resource management systems use a system model to describe resources and a centralized scheduler to control their allocation. We argue that this paradigm does not ada...
In this paper we investigate two related aspects of the formalization of open interaction systems: how to specify norms, and how to enforce them by means of sanctions. The problem...
In recent years, several frameworks have been developed for processing very large quantities of data on large clusters of commodity PCs. These frameworks have focused on fault-tole...
The World Wide Web encourages widely-distributed, open, decentralised systems that span multiple administrative domains. Recent research has turned to trust management [4] as a fr...
Web services are often employed to create wide distributed evolvable applications from existing components that constitute a service-based software system. ServicesOriented Archit...