Although it has long been realised that ACID transactions by themselves are not adequate for structuring long-lived applications and much research work has been done on developing...
Iain Houston, Mark C. Little, Ian Robinson, Santos...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
Traditional Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) have not lived up to their promise because there are too many ways to define PKIs, too many cryptographic primitives to build them wi...
Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, ...
The complexity of Grid environments is growing as more projects and applications appear in this quick-evolving domain. Widespread applications are distributed over thousands of com...
Franck Bonnassieux, Robert Harakaly, Pascale Prime...