Abstract. The emergence of handheld devices associated with wireless technologies has introduced new challenges for middleware. First, mobility is becoming a key characteristic; mo...
Abstract. Modern parallel and distributed computing solutions are often built onto a “middleware” software layer providing a higher and common level of service between computat...
Emanuele Di Saverio, Marco Cesati, Christian Di Bi...
The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particu...
In recent years, trust negotiation (TN) has been proposed as a novel access control solution for use in open system environments in which resources are shared across organizationa...
Adam J. Lee, Marianne Winslett, Jim Basney, Von We...
— with the ubiquity of handheld devices people can now access information and conduct online transactions virtually anywhere and anytime. In such flexible but less reliable envir...