Firewalls are a cornerstone of todays security infrastructure for networks. Their configuration, implementing a firewall policy, is inherently complex, hard to understand, and diff...
While the literature contains several adaptive sampling techniques for statistical comparison of competing simulated system configurations and for embedded statistical computation...
Given current complexity of Grid technologies, the lack of security of P2P systems and the rigidity of VPN technologies make sharing resources belonging to different institutions s...
Modeling self-adaptive applications is a difficult task due to the complex relationships they have with their environments. Designers of such applications strive to model accurate...
Deployment of distributed applications on large systems, and especially on grid infrastructures, becomes a more and more complex task. Grid users spend a lot of time to prepare, in...