Amidst the proliferation of different resources available on the Grid, today, it is vital to optimally discover the appropriate resource from amongst a repository of the resources...
Unambiguous definition of the information exchanged between distributed systems is a necessary requirement for simulation system interoperability. The ontological spectrum categor...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
Selecting the right parties to interact with is a fundamental problem in open and dynamic environments. The problem is exemplified when the number of interacting parties is high a...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...