The fundamental role of autonomous agents in managing activities of space systems has emerged some years ago with the NASA’s Remote Agent Experiment. However, the possible advant...
Francesco Amigoni, Stefano Gualandi, Daniele Menot...
As computing models change, so too do the demands on storage. Distributed and virtualized systems introduce new vulnerabilities, assumptions, and performance requirements on disks...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
Abstract. Monitoring systems are nowadays ubiquitous in complex environments, such as Grids. Their use is fundamental for performance evaluation, problem spotting, advanced debuggi...
Security functions such as access control, encryption and authentication are typically left up to applications on the modern Internet. There is no unified system to implement thes...