When investigating the performance of running scientific/ commercial workflows in parallel and distributed systems, we often take into account only the resources allocated to the ...
Ligang He, Mark Calleja, Mark Hayes, Stephen A. Ja...
Nowadays the AFIS (Automatic fingerprint Identification system) plays more and more important roles in various applications such as access control, ATM card verification and crimi...
One of the main advantages of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems is their capability to offer replicas of the same content at various locations. This allows to access contents even when so...
Privacy is one of the most important properties of an information system must satisfy. In which systems the need to share information among different, not trusted entities, the pro...
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. We present Cassandra, a language and system for expressing policy, and the results of a sub...