—Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of service provisioning. WS-Agreement1 is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both ...
K. P. Clark, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T. Brazie...
Desktop client applications interact with both local and remote resources. This is both a benefit in terms of the rich features desktop clients can provide, but also a security r...
We designed a secure key registration system based on the proactive secret-sharing scheme. A user can register important data such as a session key to a distributed system in a (t...
-- In Grid collaborations, scientists use middleware to execute computational experiments, visualize results, and securely share data on resources ranging from desktop machines to ...
Weide Zhang, David Del Vecchio, Glenn S. Wasson, M...
COTS components, like software libraries, can be used to reduce the development effort. Unfortunately, many COTS components have been developed without a focus on robustness and s...