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 ...
Abstract. Understanding a large schema without the assistance of persons already familiar with it (and its associated applications), is a hard and very time consuming task that occ...
Abstract. In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in Javabased volunteer computing systems, which aim to make it possible to build very large parallel computing network...
This paper introduces a transparent self-configuring architecture for automatic scaling with temperature awareness in the database tier of a dynamic content web server. We use a ...
Saeed Ghanbari, Gokul Soundararajan, Jin Chen, Cri...
Quality of Service support is an important prerequisite for the adoption of Grid technologies for medical applications. The GEMSS Grid infrastructure addressed this issue by offer...
Siegfried Benkner, Gerhard Engelbrecht, Stuart E. ...