As the size of distributed systems keeps growing, the peer to peer communication paradigm has been identified as the key to scalability. Peer to peer overlay networks are charact...
Erwan Le Merrer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Laurent Mas...
Business process describes a set of services that span enterprise boundaries and are provided by enterprises that see each other as partners. Web services is widely accepted and a...
This paper describes the design and implementation of the distributed digital rights management (DDRM) system as undertaken by the eduSource project, a national network of learnin...
Stephen Downes, Gilbert Babin, Luc Belliveau, Raph...
The adoption of electronically formatted medical records, so called Electronic Health Records (EHRs), has become extremely important in healthcare systems to enable the exchange of...
Jing Jin, Gail-Joon Ahn, Michael J. Covington, Xin...
This paper makes two main contributions towards establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification...