With multicore architectures being introduced to the market, the research community is revisiting problems to evaluate them under the new preconditions set by those new systems. A...
—The computational Grid concept is gaining great popularity as the best way to deliver access to a wide range of distributed computing and data resources. But, as Grids move from...
Policy override is gaining traction in the research community to improve the efficiency and usability of authorization mechanisms. These mechanisms turn the conventional privilege...
Many organizations provide information technology services, either to external or internal customers. They maintain software, operate information systems, manage and maintain work...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...