Global public computing platforms, such as PlanetLab, grid computing systems, and XenoServers, require facilities for managing trust to allow their participants to interact effect...
DIET (Distributed Interactive Engineering Toolbox) is a set of hierarchical components to design Network Enabled Server (NES) systems. In these systems, clients ask to agents (dis...
This paper presents the first quantitative evaluation of the role of routing computations on performance when mobility is introduced to a content-based routing network. Additiona...
Emerging trust and risk management systems provide a framework for principals to determine whether they will exchange resources, without requiring a complete definition of their ...
Middleware helps to manage the complexity and heterogeneity inherent in distributed systems. Traditional middleware has a monolithic architecture, which makes it difficult to adap...