Abstract. Timeouts play a fundamental role in network protocols, controlling numerous aspects of host behavior at different layers of the protocol stack. Previous work has documen...
Many efforts are currently going towards networking smart things from the physical world (e.g. RFID, wireless sensor and actuator networks, embedded devices) on a larger scale. Rat...
The Globus Toolkit (GT) has been developed since the late 1990s to support the development of service-oriented distributed computing applications and infrastructures. Core GT compo...
In this paper we are interested in argument based reasoning for access control, for example in the context of agents negotiating access to resources or web services in virtual orga...
Guido Boella, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert W. N. van d...
—Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of service provisioning. WS-Agreement1 is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both ...
K. P. Clark, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T. Brazie...