Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Personal Health Record (PHR) systems could allow patients to better manage their health information and share it to enhance the quality and effi...
In this paper, we take the first step to address the gap between the security needs in outsourced hosting services and the protection provided in the current practice. We consider ...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...
- In concert with customer and marketing staffs, systems engineers often formulate and codify an initial overall software system solution to fulfill customer needs. Without a focus...
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...