Firewall policies can be extremely complex and difficult to maintain, especially on networks with more than a few hundred machines. The difficulty of configuring a firewall proper...
Grid Workflows are emerging as practical programming models for solving large e-scientific problems on the Grid. However, it is typically assumed that the workflow components eith...
Many industrial applications with real-time demands are composed of mixed sets of tasks with a variety of requirements. These can be in the form of standard timing constraints, su...
Advances of sensor and RFID technology provide significant new power for humans to sense, understand and manage the world. RFID provides fast data collection with precise identific...
The development of data warehouses is based on a threestage process that starts specifying both the static and dynamic properties of on-line analytical processing (OLAP) applicati...