If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
Distributed cooperative engineering applications require consistent and long-term sharing of large volumes of data, which may cause conflicts due to concurrent read/write operatio...
—Free and open source software (FOSS) is often distributed in binary packages, sometimes part of GNU/Linux operating system distributions, or part of products distributed/sold to...
Existing dynamic race detectors suffer from at least one of the following three limitations: (i) space overhead per memory location grows linearly with the number of parallel thre...
Modern multiuser software systems have adopted RoleBased Access Control (RBAC) for authorization management. This paper presents a formal model for RBAC policy validation and a st...
Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Robert J. Flynn, E...