—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...
The implementation of a standard PKI in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is not practical for several reasons: (1) lack of a fixed infrastructure; (2) a centralized certification au...
Charikleia Zouridaki, Brian L. Mark, Kris Gaj, Ros...
Functionality for various services of scheduling algorithms is typically provided as extensions to a basic algorithm. Aperiodic task handling, guarantees, etc., are integrated wit...
In this paper we present CoWSAMI, a middleware infrastructure that enables context awareness in open ambient intelligence environments, consisting of mobile users and context sour...
Security requirements strongly influence the architectural design of complex IT systems in a similar way as other non-functional requirements. Both security engineering as well a...