Abstract-- The TCP/IP suite, the basis for today's Internet, lacks even the most basic mechanisms of authentication. As usage of the Internet increases, its scarcity of built-...
Madalina Baltatu, Antonio Lioy, Fabio Maino, Danie...
Abstract. This paper presents several engineering applications that involve distributed software services. Due to the complexity of these applications, an efficient and flexible se...
Common to Grid services, Web Services, software agents and software components is that they are independently built and provide services aimed for composition. A key issue is wheth...
The composition of services that are indexed in a large-scale service directory often involves many complex queries issued by the service composition algorithm to the directory. Th...
Supporting security in distributed systems is becoming more important with the ongoing work in grids, distributed middlewares and web services. Decentralised security architecture...