Complexity of near future and even nowadays applications is exponentially increasing. In order to tackle the design of such complex systems, being able to engineer self-organising ...
Legacy network file services such as NFS, SMB/CIFS, and AFP changed the way we worked. File services running on crossplatform networks allowed us to save our files on remote syste...
—Server consolidation based on virtualization technology will simplify system administration, reduce the cost of power and physical infrastructure, and improve utilization in tod...
The recent trend towards dynamically extensible systems, such as Java, SPIN or VINO, promises more powerful and flexible systems. At the same time, the impact of extensibility on...
Ad hoc and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing paradigms pose a number of security challenges. The deployment of classic security protocols to provide services such as node authentication...
Esther Palomar, Almudena Alcaide, Juan M. Est&eacu...