Middleware layers placed between user clients and application servers have been used to perform a variety of functions to support the vision of nomadic computing across varying pla...
The distributed firewall is an important new line of network defense. It provides fine-grained access control to augment the protections afforded by the traditional perimeter fire...
: The concept of interface in Ada 2005 significantly facilitates its usage as the basis for a software components technology. This technology, taking benefit of the resources that ...
In this paper we propose a new resource discovery protocol, REALTOR, which is based on a combination of pullbased and push-based resource information dissemination. REALTOR has be...
In high energy physics, bioinformatics, and other disciplines, we encounter applications involving numerous, loosely coupled jobs that both access and generate large data sets. So...