In recent years a movement from distributed systems controlled by users to automatic, autonomous and self-configuring distributed systems is noticeable. Web services is one approa...
Elmar Zeeb, Andreas Bobek, Hendrik Bohn, Frank Gol...
Given a client/server application, how can the server entrust the integrity of the remote client, albeit the latter is running on an un-trusted machine? To address this research p...
Economic resource allocation in Application Layer Networks (such as Grids) is critical to allow applications and users to effectively exploit computational and data infrastructure...
Werner Streitberger, Michael Reinicke, Torsten Eym...
While inherent resource redundancies in distributed applications facilitate gracefully degradable services, methods to enhance their dependability may have subtle, yet significan...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, William H. Sanders, Savio ...
Dynamic behavior is inherent in virtual organizations. Semantics has to be processed to manage dynamism and other properties like state, life cycle, faults, and others. In our pap...