One of the guiding principles of the Grid is local (site) autonomy. Resource owners maintain control over their resources even when those resources are part of a larger Grid. In o...
Jun Feng, Lingling Cui, Glenn S. Wasson, Marty Hum...
The Mobile Agent technology has already shown its advantages, but at the same time has already remarked new problems currently limiting its diffusion in commercial environments. A...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...
With the increasing complexity and dynamics of database and information systems, it becomes more and more di cult for administrative personnel to identify, specify and enforce sec...
Christina Yip Chung, Michael Gertz, Karl N. Levitt
The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm seems able to support effectively distributed applications in open and heterogeneous environments, and application areas such as ecommerce appear to...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montana...
In a service-oriented architecture, service compositions are assembled from other component services. Such compositions may include services from unknown and potentially untrusted...
Christian Schneider, Frederic Stumpf, Claudia Ecke...