The Resource Oriented Authorization Manager (ROAM) was created to provide a simple but flexible authorization system for the National Fusion Grid (FusionGrid). This system builds ...
In order to manage and enforce multiple heterogeneous authorization policies in distributed authorization environment, we defined the root policy specification language and its cor...
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is a general framework that can model complex problems in multi-agent systems. Several current algorithms that solve general DCOP instan...
Evaluating the design of a distributed application is di cult but provides useful information for program development and maintenance. In distributed debugging, for example, proce...