It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
We have observed that supercomputing clusters made up of commodity off-the-shelf computers possess emergent properties that are apparent when these systems are considered as an in...
Gregory A. Koenig, Xin Meng, Adam J. Lee, Michael ...
Proxy re-encryption (PRE), introduced by Blaze, Bleumer and Strauss, allows a semi-trusted proxy to convert a ciphertext originally intended for Alice into an encryption of the sa...
Robert H. Deng, Jian Weng, Shengli Liu, Kefei Chen
The Nix software deployment system is based on the paradigm of transparent source/binary deployment: distributors deploy descriptors that build components from source, while clien...
—Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of service provisioning. WS-Agreement1 is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both ...
K. P. Clark, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T. Brazie...