— The increasing complexity of distributed enterprise systems has made the task of managing these systems difficult and time consuming. The only way to simplify the management p...
Adaptive security is based on the observation that the security requirements of a system or service heavily depend on the environment in which they operate and should therefore be...
Information systems form the backbones of the critical infrastructures of modern societies. Unfortunately, these systems are highly vulnerable to attacks that can result in enormo...
Howard E. Shrobe, Robert Laddaga, Robert Balzer, N...
Robots in a swarm construction system need to be able to find their way to all potential places to add material to a structure. In two dimensions, a (trivial) procedure exists fo...
Grid and ubiquitous computing systems generally consist of a large number of networked nodes with applications implemented as distributed services or processes, respectively. A cr...
Wolfgang Trumler, Andreas Pietzowski, Benjamin Sat...
Group communication primitives have broad utility as building blocks for distributed applications. The challenge is to create and maintain the distributed structures that support ...
Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster, A...
A fundamental problem that confronts decentralized reputation systems is the design of efficient, secure and incentive-compatible mechanisms to gather trust information despite m...
Self-adapting systems based on multiple concurrent applications must decide how to allocate scarce resources to applications and how to set the quality parameters of each applicat...
Vahe Poladian, David Garlan, Mary Shaw, M. Satyana...
The study of synchronization has received much attention in a variety of applications, ranging from coordinating sensors in wireless networks to models of fireflies flashing in...
Managing demand for electrical energy allows generation facilities to be run more efficiently. Current systems allow for management between large industrial consumers. There is, ...
Elth Ogston, Astrid Zeman, Mikhail Prokopenko, Geo...