Fairness is a major issue in the operation of queues, perhaps it is the reason why queues were formed in the first place. Recent studies show that the fairness of a queueing syst...
This paper analyses the structure of the Internet marketplace and the business relationships of key players involved in network services provision. A brief overview of existing pr...
Two convincing paradigms have emerged for achieving scalability in widely distributed systems: publish/subscribe communication and role-based, policy-driven control of access to t...
Jean Bacon, David M. Eyers, Jatinder Singh, Peter ...
In recent years, trust negotiation (TN) has been proposed as a novel access control solution for use in open system environments in which resources are shared across organizationa...
Adam J. Lee, Marianne Winslett, Jim Basney, Von We...
Software evolution is the most costly and time consuming software development activity. Yet software engineering research is predominantly concerned with initial development. MORA...
Gregory D. Abowd, Ashok K. Goel, Dean F. Jerding, ...