Ant colonies, and more generally social insect societies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organiz...
The rapid emergence of GPS enabled devices, sensors and mobile equipment in commercial as well as government organizations has led to considerable research in time- and location-b...
Achieving data security over cooperating web services is becoming a reality, but existing XML access control architectures do not consider this federated service computing. In this...
Erwin Leonardi, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Mizuho Iwaihar...
Cloud computing, with its promise of (almost) unlimited computation, storage and bandwidth, is increasingly becoming the infrastructure of choice for many organizations. As applic...
Cloud computing offers users the ability to access large pools of computational and storage resources on demand. Multiple commercial clouds already allow businesses to replace, or...