Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
—The current trends in service consolidation over Internet Protocol (IP) also stimulates the integration of the industrial automation system with the information technology (IT) ...
Abstract—Identity Management (IdM) on the application layer improves the usability and security for end users by offering features like Single Sign-On and attribute provisioning....
Web services have greatly leveraged the world of Business-to-Business (B2B) communication and promise a lot more through dynamic service composition. In order to compose Web servi...
Several works on grid computing have been proposed in the last years. However, most of them, including available software, can not deal properly with some issues related to contro...