MEMS-based storage devices (MEMStores) are significantly different from both disk drives and semiconductor memories. The differences motivate the queswhether they need new abstrac...
Delegation is a mechanism that allows a user A to act on another user B's behalf by making B's access rights available to A. It is well recognized as an important mechani...
Caching techniques have been used to improve the performance gap of storage hierarchies in computing systems. In data intensive applications that access large data files over wid...
1 Switched system-area networks enable thousands of storage devices to be shared and directly accessed by end hosts, promising databases and filesystems highly scalable, reliable ...
Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli