In this paper we outline a framework for assuring information quality (IQ) in an e-Science context, using semiotics theory, semantic explanation of resources, and data couplings. ...
The grid security architecture today does not prevent certain unauthorized access to the files associated with a job executing on a remote machine. Programs and data are transferre...
A key tree is a distributed data structure of security keys that can be used by a group of users. In this paper, we describe how any user in the group can use the different keys i...
The integration of distributed, data dependent components requires a data synchronisation model. We consider a class of systems where data-dependent components produce data in dis...
Parallel and distributed programming is conceptually harder to undertake and to understand than sequential programming, because a programmer often has to manage the coexistence an...