Nowadays the success of many e-commerce applications, such as on-line banking, depends on their reliability, robustness and security. Designing a web server architecture that keep...
As the Internet and enterprise wide distributed systems become more prevalent in business IT systems, numerous advanced COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) middleware technologies hav...
Many techniques have been proposed to scale web applications. However, the data interdependencies between the database queries and transactions issued by the applications limit th...
Traditional access control models, such as Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), do not take into account contextual information, such as location and time, for making access decision...
Rapid increases in computing and communication performance are exacerbating the long-standing problem of performance-limited input/output. Indeed, for many otherwise scalable para...
Phyllis Crandall, Ruth A. Aydt, Andrew A. Chien, D...