The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project, supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative, aims at making scientific instruments and sensors remotely accessible by ...
Hao Yin, Donald F. McMullen, Mehmet A. Nacar, Marl...
Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
—The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) model for Web services based monitoring of remote scientific instruments is being extended and enhanced to provide a capabil...
Douglas du Boulay, Clinton Chee, Kenneth Chiu, Ric...
Protecting shared sensitive information is a key requirement for today’s distributed applications. Our research uses virtualization technologies to create and maintain trusted d...
Jiantao Kong, Karsten Schwan, Min Lee, Mustaque Ah...
Cloud computing allows the use of Internet-based services to support business processes and rental of IT-services on a utility-like basis. It offers a concentration of resources bu...
Rohit Ranchal, Bharat K. Bhargava, Lotfi Ben Othma...