In complex systems, like robot plants, applications are built on top of a set of components, or devices. Each of them has particular individual constraints, and there are also log...
Web services have emerged as a new paradigm that supports loosely-coupled distributed systems in service discovery and service execution. Next generation web services will evolve ...
Grid technology enables access and sharing of data and computational resources across administrative domains. Thus, it is important to provide a uniform access and management mech...
Jin Wu, Chokchai Leangsuksun, Vishal Rampure, Hong...
We present a simple, yet powerful, approach for the specification and enforcement of authorizations regulating data release among data holders collaborating in a distributed comp...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...
Within the current Internet, autonomous ISPs implement bilateral agreements, with each ISP establishing agreements that suit its own local objective to maximize its profit. Peerin...
Richard T. B. Ma, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui, V...