Web services are designed for composition and use by third parties through dynamic discovery. As such, the issue of interoperability between services is of great importance to ens...
We describe a novel approach for building a secure and fault tolerant data storage service in collaborative work environments, which uses perfect secret sharing schemes to store d...
— The potential of truly large scale grids can only be realized with grid architectures and deployment strategies that lower the need for human administrative intervention, and t...
Designing applications with timeliness requirements in environments of uncertain synchrony is known to be a difficult problem. In this paper, we follow the perspective of timing ...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...