Reputation systems aggregate mutual feedback of interacting peers into a "reputation" metric for each participant. This is then available to prospective service "req...
Access control (AC) technology has come a long way from its roots as the means for sharing resources between processes running on a single machine, to a mechanism for regulating t...
In this paper we address the problem of managing heterogeneous workloads in a virtualized data center. We consider two different workloads: transactional applications and long-ru...
David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, J...
This paper describes a novel technique for establishing a virtual file system that allows data to be transferred user-transparently and on-demand across computing and storage serve...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia, Jos&eac...
Service-orientation is not only a means for systems integration, but also an architecture paradigm for building systems. Flexibility, adaptability and interoperability are some of...