Computation off-loading, i.e., remote execution, has been shown to be effective for extending the computational power and battery life of resource-restricted devices, e.g., hand-h...
Abstract: The economic relevance of IT risk is increasing due to various operational, technical as well as regulatory reasons. Increasing flexibility of business processes and risi...
The World Wide Web has undergone a rapid transition from the originally static hypertext to an ubiquitous hypermedia system. Today, the Web is not only used as a basis for distribu...
This paper describes JSIM: the simulation module of the Java Modelling Tools (JMT), an open-source fully-portable Java suite for capacity planning studies. The simulator has been ...
This paper presents a policy-based framework for managing access control in distributed heterogeneous systems. This framework is based on the PDP/PEP approach. The PDP (Policy Deci...