Data replication is a well established concept in the grid community to increase data availability and faulttolerance in the grid environment. However, there is a lack of software...
This paper presents a service-based grid computing model which emphasizes that a grid is a special computing system. By comparing this model with the traditional computing system ...
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...
Single-user, desktop-based computer applications are pervasive in our daily lives and work. The prospect of using these applications with innovative interaction systems, like mult...
Autonomic computing – self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing applications, systems and networks – is widely believed to be a promising solution to everincreasing syst...
Gail E. Kaiser, Janak J. Parekh, Philip Gross, Giu...