The rapid growth of service coordination languages creates a need for methodological support for coordination design. Coordination design differs from workflow design because a ...
The X.500 standard speci es a distributed directory service designed to store information about people and objects associated with computer networks. Its API is geared toward retr...
Considerable research effort has recently been devoted to the design of structured peer-to-peer overlays, a term we use to encompass Content-Addressable Networks (CANs), Distribut...
Cloud computing [22] is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitat...
Policies are a means of influencing management behaviour within a distributed system, without coding the behaviour into the managers. Authorisation policies specify what activitie...