With the ongoing trend towards the globalization of software systems and their development, components in these systems might not only work together, but may end up evolving indep...
A major hurdle in sharing resources between organizations is heterogeneity. Therefore, in order for two organizations to collaborate their policies have to be resolved. The proces...
Hao Wang, Somesh Jha, Miron Livny, Patrick Drew Mc...
Abstract. Some security problems can be often solved through authorization rather than authentication. Furthermore, certificate-based authorization approach can alleviate usual dr...
-- 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...
Abstract: Recently, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has emerged as an alternative to Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software. Now, FOSS is perceived as a viable long-term sol...
Robert Charpentier, Mourad Debbabi, Dima Alhadidi,...