This paper promotes accountability as a central design goal for dependable networked systems. We define three properties for accountable systems that extend beyond the basic secu...
For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the back-end, with system...
Giacomo Piccinelli, Wolfgang Emmerich, Christian Z...
Data intensive applications, e.g. in life sciences, pose new efficiency challenges to the service composition problem. Since today computing power is mainly increased by multiplica...
Web and grid services are quickly maturing as a technology that allows for the integration of applications belonging to different administrative domains, enabling much faster and ...
Ana Carolina Barbosa, Jacques Philippe Sauvé...
The increasing complexity of computer networks and our increasing dependence on them means enforcing reliability requirements is both more challenging and more critical. The expan...