The global inter-networking infrastructure that has become essential for contemporary day-to-day computing and communication tasks, has also enabled the deployment of several large...
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...
The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project, supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative, aims at making scientific instruments and sensors remotely accessible by ...
Hao Yin, Donald F. McMullen, Mehmet A. Nacar, Marl...
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...
DEVS is a Modeling and Simulation formalism that has been used to study the dynamics of discrete event systems. Cell-DEVS is a DEVS-based formalism that defines the cell space as ...