The paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as an architectural approach to flexibility and agility, not just in systems development but also in business process ...
Application development for distributed-computing ``Grids'' can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the ...
Nicholas T. Karonis, Brian R. Toonen, Ian T. Foste...
As the amount of information technology increases, managing information resources, so that the correct people can find the information easily, becomes a critical issue. Hypermedia...
Ian Heath, Gary Wills, Richard Crowder, Wendy Hall...
Privacy has been acknowledged to be a critical requirement for many business (and non-business) environments. Therefore, the definition of an expressive and easy-to-use privacyre...
The need for reliability in Grid Systems is a difficult challenge which is very important in the context of highly dynamic systems composed of thousands of nodes. Failure manageme...
Catalin Leordeanu, Valentin Cristea, Thomas Ropars...