In this paper we discuss several challenges associated scientific workflow design and management in distributed, heterogeneous environments. Based on our prior work with a number ...
Privacy, preservation and performance (“3 P’s”) are central design objectives for distributed data management systems. However, these objectives tend to compete with one ano...
The paper addresses the problem of the construction and management of highly available services in large, open distributed systems. A novel replication protocol is proposed to sat...
—The group signature based security scheme is a promising approach to provision privacy in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). In this paper, we propose a novel distributed key m...
: We describe a simple and powerful tool for the management of distributed work: the Task Manager. Common tasks may be shared and manipulated independently by a number of people. T...