The classical role of a firewall consists in protecting a computer network against attacks from the outside world, especially the Internet. Firewalls are often expensive, hard to c...
Ernst Georg Haffner, Thomas Engel, Christoph Meine...
For Web applications in which the database component is the bottleneck, scalability can be provided by a third-party Database Scalability Service Provider (DSSP) that caches appli...
Amit Manjhi, Anastassia Ailamaki, Bruce M. Maggs, ...
We introduce Grid Resources for Industrial Applications (GRIA), a project that aims to enable commercial use of the Grid. GRIA enables service providers to rent out spare CPU cycl...
Search computing is a novel discipline whose goal is to answer complex, multi-domain queries. Such queries typically require combining in their results domain knowledge extracted ...
Two important architectural choices underlie the success of the Web: numerous, independently operated servers speak a common protocol, and a single type of client--the Web browser...