Security is a critical issue in dynamic and open distributed environments such as network-based services or wireless networks. To ensure that a certain level of security is maintai...
Abstract. [Context and motivation] With increasing use of software, quality attributes grow in relative importance. Robustness is a software quality attribute that has not received...
Large-scale distributed systems, such as ubiquitous computing environments, require a service delivery mechanism in order to keep track of the vast set of services offered and mak...
Maria Riaz, Saad Liaquat Kiani, Sungyoung Lee, San...
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) middleware increasingly offers not only functional support for standard interfaces, but also the ability to optimize their resource consumption pat...
The requirement for Grid middleware to be largely transparent to individual users and at the same time act in accordance with their personal needs is a difficult challenge. In e-...