Open distributed systems such as service oriented architecture and cloud computing have emerged as promising platforms to deliver software as a service to users. However, for many...
In an open networking environment, a workstation usually needs to identify its legal users for providing its services. Kerberos provides an efficient approach whereby a trusted th...
—Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centrali...
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Peter L. Reiher, Leonard ...
Abstract. The practical utility of optimization technologies is often impacted by factors that reflect how these tools are used in practice, including whether various real-world c...
William E. Hart, Jonathan W. Berry, Erik G. Boman,...
Organisations increasingly use the Internet to offer their own services and to utilise the services of others. This naturally leads to information sharing across organisational bo...
Nick Cook, Santosh K. Shrivastava, Stuart M. Wheat...