The grid environment presents numerous opportunities for business applications as well as for scientific ones. Nevertheless the current trends seem to lead to several independent ...
Abstract. We investigate a security framework for collaborative applications that relies on the role-based access control (RBAC) model. In our framework, roles are pre-defined and...
Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, Mirko...
With the increasing adoption of Java for parallel and distributed computing, there is a strong motivation for enhancing the expressive elegance of the RMI paradigm with flexible ...
Dawid Kurzyniec, Tomasz Wrzosek, Vaidy S. Sunderam...
For a system of cooperative mobile robots to be effective in real-world applications, it must be able to efficiently execute a wide class of complex tasks in potentially unknown a...
Pervasive computing environments are characterized by an additional heterogeneity compared to existing computing infrastructures. Devices ranging from small embedded systems to fu...