Protecting location information of mobile users in Location Based Services (LBS) is a very important but quite difficult and still largely unsolved problem. Location information h...
Web service-based workflow management systems have garnered considerable attention for automating and scheduling dependent operations. Such systems often support user preferences,...
David Chiu, Sagar Deshpande, Gagan Agrawal, Rongxi...
Web services (WS) have become a significant part of the Web because of such attractive features as simple to use, platform independence, and XML/SOAP support. However, these featu...
Manual management of public key credentials can be a significant and often off-putting obstacle to Grid use, particularly for casual users. We describe the Portal-based User Regis...
Ian T. Foster, Veronika Nefedova, Mehran Ahsant, R...
— Estimation of network proximity among nodes is an important building block in several applications like service selection and composition, multicast tree formation, and overlay...