The emergence of portable computers and wireless technologies has introduced new challenges for middleware. Mobility brings new requirements and is becoming a key characteristic. M...
—Interoperability remains a challenging and growing problem within distributed systems. A range of heterogeneous network and middleware protocols which cannot interact with one a...
Abstract: Interoperability for information systems remains a challenge both at the semantic and organisational levels. The original three-level architecture for local databases nee...
Commercial tools are heavily used, relatively cheap, well maintained, and provide powerful functionalities. However, composing these tools in order to build larger applications ra...
Automated trust negotiation is an approach to establishing trust between strangers through the exchange of digital credentials and the use of access control policies that specify ...