This paper presents a framework for representing and distributing access control policies in distributed heterogeneous systems. Access control polices follows the RBAC (Role Based...
The challenge for user authentication in a global file system is allowing people to grant access to specific users and groups in remote administrative domains, without assuming ...
Michael Kaminsky, George Savvides, David Mazi&egra...
Manual management of public key credentials can be a significant and often off-putting obstacle to Grid use, particularly for casual users. We describe the Portal-based User Regis...
Ian T. Foster, Veronika Nefedova, Mehran Ahsant, R...
This study examined the interplay among processor speed, cluster interconnect and file I/O, using parallel applications to quantify interactions. We focused on a common case wher...
As a general framework, UNITY does not offer any specific facility for the design of distributed systems. For such systems, distribution aspects must be represented at a low level,...
Michel Charpentier, Mamoun Filali, Philippe Mauran...