—Contracts and their composition may be used with different goals in a component-based design flow: on the one hand, a component contract describes the guarantees a component is...
Abstract. Despite the widespread adoption of Role-based Access Control (RBAC) models, new access control models are required for new applications for which RBAC may not be especial...
In times of increasing grid oriented computing environments, the integration and orchestration of business services become more and more emergent. This challenge is taken in the co...
We describe a software architecture for storage services in computational grid environments. Based upon a lightweight message-passing paradigm, the architecture enables the provis...
This paper presents a framework for the management of multiple representations of georeferenced elements in a GIS environment. This solution is presented from a database perspecti...