Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
This paper introduces the PeerAccess framework for reasoning about authorization in open distributed systems, and shows how a parameterization of the framework can be used to reas...
Marianne Winslett, Charles C. Zhang, Piero A. Bona...
As information environments grow in complexity, we yearn for simple interfaces that streamline human cognition and effort. Users need to perform complex operations on thousands of...
When modifying or debugging a software system, among other tasks, developers must often understand and manipulate source code that crosscuts the system’s structure. These tasks ...
Routing mechanisms for inter-autonomousregion communication require distribution of policy-sensitive information as well as algorithms that operate on such information. Without su...