3D tele-immersion (3DTI) has recently emerged as a new way of video-mediated collaboration across the Internet. Unlike conventional 2D video-conferencing systems, it can immerse r...
Trust negotiation supports authentication and access control across multiple security domains by allowing parties to use non-forgeable digital credentials to establish trust. By t...
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Alberto Trombetta, Elisa...
In recent years, we have witnessed a growing interest in high performance computing (HPC) using a cluster of workstations. However, many challenges remain to be resolved before th...
In the present paper, we examine the problem of supporting application-specific computation within a network file server. Our objectives are (i) to introduce an easy to use yet ...
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Je...
Mega grids span several continents and may consist of millions of nodes and billions of tasks executing at any point in time. This setup calls for scalable and highly available re...