With the number of e-Business applications dramatically increasing, a service level agreement (SLA) will play an important part in Web services. The SLA is a combination of severa...
In this paper we present an initial analysis of job failures in a large-scale data-intensive Grid. Based on three representative periods in production, we characterize the interar...
Hui Li, David L. Groep, Lex Wolters, Jeffrey Templ...
: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have been established as an IT strategy to support the on demand goal of business agility. Web services standards and their implementations ...
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) middleware increasingly offers not only functional support for standard interfaces, but also the ability to optimize their resource consumption pat...
Abstract. Predicate encryption is a new powerful cryptographic primitive which allows for fine-grained access control for encrypted data: the owner of the secret key can release pa...