Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
Service providers and their customers agree on certain quality of service guarantees through Service Level Agreements (SLA). An SLA contains one or more Service Level Objectives (S...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
Network-centricity is a concept under consideration as a useful paradigm for complex organizational operations, combining the strengths of bureaucracy with the innovative possibil...
—The increasing demand for resources of the high performance computing systems has led to new forms of collaboration of distributed systems such as interoperable grid systems tha...
Many emerging mobile wireless applications depend upon secure group communications, in which data is encrypted and the group's data encryption key is changed whenever a membe...
Chun Zhang, Brian DeCleene, James F. Kurose, Donal...