Performance prediction is set to play a significant role in supportive middleware that is designed to manage workload on parallel and distributed computing systems. This middlewa...
Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, Helene N. Li...
One of the most difficult problems to be solved by metacomputing systems is to ensure strong authentication and authorization. The problem is complicated since the hosts involved ...
Our experience with Internet-based scientific collaboratories indicates that they need to be user-extensible, allow users to add tools and objects dynamically to shared workspaces...
Jang Ho Lee, Atul Prakash, Trent Jaeger, Gwobaw Wu
User delegation is a mechanism for assigning access rights available to a user to another user. A delegation operation can either be a grant or transfer operation. Delegation for r...
During the last decade, all commercial database systems have included features for parallel processing into their products. This development has been driven by the fact that datab...