Instant Messaging is in addition to Web and Email the most popular service on the Internet. With xOperator we demonstrate the implementation of a strategy which deeply integrates I...
This paper proposes a new method for programming and controlling distributed tasks. Applications declare behavior patterns that are used to automatically predict and reserve resou...
: Bugs in network application program can be exploited to compromise the system on which the application is running. When running these applications in an unsafe environment such a...
There is an emergence of cloud application platforms such as Microsoft’s Azure, Google’s App Engine and Amazon’s EC2/SimpleDB/S3. Startups and Enterprise alike, lured by the...
In many Grid services deployments, the clients and servers reside in different administrative domains. Hence, there is a requirement both to discover each other’s authorization ...
Ionut Constandache, Daniel Olmedilla, Frank Sieben...