With increased global interconnectivity, reliance on e-commerce, network services, and Internet communication, computer security has become a necessity. Organizations must protect ...
Paul K. Harmer, Paul D. Williams, Gregg H. Gunsch,...
Object-oriented technologies are frequently used to design and implement distributed applications. Object replication is a well-established approach to increase the dependability f...
e-Science has much to benefit from the emerging field of grid computing. However, construction of e-Science grids is a complex and inefficient undertaking. In particular, deployme...
We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variet...
Erik S. Steinmetz, John Collins, Scott Jamison, Ra...
We present the design, correctness, and analysis of SONDe, a simple fully decentralized object deployment algorithm for highly requested systems. Given an object (service or data)...
Vincent Gramoli, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Erwan Le Me...