Abstract. Computers support more and more tasks in the personal and professional activities of users. Such user tasks increasingly span large periods of time and many locations acr...
In this paper we sketch a framework supporting contract enactment within the context of virtual organisation units that are dynamically created in order to achieve a common object...
Theodosis Dimitrakos, Ivan Djordjevic, Zoran Milos...
Microelectronic manufacturing deals with the efficient coordination of manufacturing processes and owning enterprises along a value chain to provide microelectronic products to cu...
Access control is one of the key requirements in enterprise security. A number of approaches in distributed systems have been designed that support various (new) paradigms such as...
Pascal Fenkam, Schahram Dustdar, Engin Kirda, Gera...
Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in modern distributed systems. Most recently, industry has witnessed the emergence of component-based middleware pla...
Michael Clarke, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Ni...