Several recent studies have pointed out that file I/Os can be a major performance bottleneck for some large Web servers. Large I/O buffer caches often do not work effectively for ...
Federated transaction management (also known as multidatabase transaction management in the literature) is needed to ensure the consistency of data that is distributed across mult...
For some time, we have focused our research on the generic B2B middleware services for managing interenterprise communities of autonomous business services. In contrast to some ea...
Abstract—Security-by-Contract (S×C) is a paradigm providing security assurances for mobile applications. In this work, we present an extension of S×C enriched with an automatic...
End users are often cast as the weak link in computer security; they fall victim to social engineering and tend to know very little about security technology and policies. This pa...