With the number of e-Business applications dramatically increasing, a service level agreement (SLA) will play an important part in Web services. The SLA is a combination of severa...
Ontologies are set to play a key r^ole in the "Semantic Web" by providing a source of shared and precisely defined terms that can be used in descriptions of web resource...
Most of the solutions proposed to support real-time (i.e. guaranteed performance) communication services in packet-switching networks adopt a connection-oriented and reservation-o...
Construction activities take place in what can be called a dynamic virtual organization (VO). VOs require a secure, reliable, scalable information infrastructure that allows collab...
Most of the current security architectures for grid systems use conventional public key infrastructure (PKI) to authenticate grid members and to secure resource allocation to thes...