In component-based software engineering, reconfiguration describes structural changes to the architecture of a component system. For stateful components, not only structural but a...
With current grid middleware, it is difficult to deploy distributed supercomputing applications that run concurrently on multiple resources. As current grid middleware systems ha...
An access control system is often viewed as a state transition system. Given a set of access control policies, a general safety requirement in such a system is to determine whethe...
Millions of Internet users are using large-scale peerto-peer (P2P) networks to share content files today. Many other mission-critical applications, such as Internet telephony and...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems are attracting increasing attention as an efficient means of sharing data among large, diverse and dynamic sets of users. The widespread use of XML as a...