A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
— Within service-oriented business environments, the non-routine processing of requests requires a greater degree of social interaction and learning in order to achieve an effect...
Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) are increasingly being used to disseminate data in today's Internet aiming at reducing the load on the origin server and the traffic on t...
George Pallis, Athena Vakali, Konstantinos Stamos,...
Electronic transactions regularly occur between business partners in separate security domains. Trust negotiation is an approach that provides an open authentication and access-co...
Tatyana Ryutov, Li Zhou, B. Clifford Neuman, Travi...
This paper deals with a shared server environment where the server is divided into a number of resource partitions and used to host multiple applications at the same time. In a cas...