Abstract— In order to efficiently use Grid resources, users or middlewares must use some network information, and in particular some knowledge of the platform network. As such kn...
— SAGA is a high-level programming abstraction, which significantly facilitates the development and deployment of Grid-aware applications. The primary aim of this paper is to di...
Many real-life organizations are hierarchies of largely autonomous, heterogeneous members (individuals or other organizations), often exhibiting rich policies. We restrict our att...
—Integration of heterogeneous information becomes again a requirement with the emergence of large-scale distributed applications such as Web-Services based Applications. Enterpri...
With an increasing number of devices that must be managed, the scalability of network and service management is a real challenge. A similar challenge seems to be solved by botnets ...