The requirement for Grid middleware to be largely transparent to individual users and at the same time act in accordance with their personal needs is a difficult challenge. In e-...
Recently, there has been considerable interest in providing “trusted computing platforms” using hardware — TCPA and Palladium being the most publicly visible examples. In th...
David Lie, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Mark Horowitz
Runtime adaptation is recognized as a viable way for a serviceoriented system to meet QoS requirements in its volatile operating environment. In this paper we propose a methodolog...
Abstract--Mobile phones are increasingly able to read autoid labels, such as barcodes or RFID tags. As virtually all consumer products sold today are equipped with such a label, th...
Since entities participating in P2P networks are usually autonomous and therefore free to decide on their level of participation, mechanisms to resolve conflicts between individu...