Abstract. Depending on whether the users or the providers are performing it, Identity Management (IM) traditionally has different meanings. For users, IM means to choose between on...
Comprehensive contractual description of Web Services and Web Service compositions is needed for selection of appropriate Web Services and their service and quality of service (Qo...
With the emergence of Service-based architectures, management of an application which comprises of a large number of distributed services becomes difficult as resources appear, mo...
With the development of networking technologies and the advent of the peer-to-peer computing paradigm, distributed file-sharing systems like Gnutella are becoming prevalent over t...
The Internet and the Grid are changing the face of high performance computing. Rather than tightly-coupled SPMD-style components running in a single cluster, on a parallel machine...