Support for distributed application management in large-scale networked environments remains in its early stages. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application ...
Jeannie R. Albrecht, Ryan Braud, Darren Dao, Nikol...
In this paper we present a system that automatically generates a 3D virtual world from a virtual institution (VI) specification, namely of activities that will take place in the v...
—In an ad-hoc collaborative sharing environment, attribute-based access control provides a promising approach in defining authorization over shared resources based on users’ p...
Abstract. The advent of context-aware computing requires a new paradigm in information management. Context information in a computing environment will take the form of disparate an...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...