Distributed systems increasingly span organizational boundaries and, with this, system and service management domains. Web services are the primary means of exposing services to c...
Bruno Wassermann, Heiko Ludwig, Jim Laredo, Kamal ...
Managing trust is a problem of particular importance in peer-to-peer environments where one frequently encounters unknown agents. Existing methods for trust management, that are b...
Starburst is an experimental database management system prototype whose objectives include extensibility, support for knowledge databases, use of memory-resident database techniqu...
Learning-enhanced relevance feedback is one of the most promising and active research directions in recent year's content-based image retrieval. However, the existing approac...
In contrast to a large body of theoretical work on computer systems, distributed systems are not idealised constructions, unconstrained by physical world limitations. They must be...