When modeling business processes, we often implicity think of internal business policies and external regulations. Yet to date, little attention is paid to avoid hard-coding polici...
ions and concepts that let applications access and share resources and services across distributed, wide area networks, while providing common security semantics, distributed resou...
Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, St...
With the emergence of global market and virtual enterprises, coordination of business processes in dispersed organizations by distributed workflow execution will take on more impo...
Today’s model of networking primarily concentrates intelligence at the end hosts with the network itself offering a simple“best-effort”,“data agnostic” communication med...
This paper presents a model of hierarchical organization of Certification Authorities which can be applied to any open system network. In order to study the feasibility of the pro...