We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. Our work on real-world policies has shown that standard policy idioms such as role hierarc...
Clusters are now composed of non-uniform nodes with different CPUs, disks or network cards so that customers can adapt the cluster configuration to the changing technologies and t...
Tobias Mayr, Philippe Bonnet, Johannes Gehrke, Pra...
Application-level multicast (ALM) is being increasingly recognized as a solution to support multipoint applications without the need for a network layer multicast protocol. Though...
Automatically understanding events happening at a site is the ultimate goal of visual surveillance system. This paper investigates the challenges faced by automated surveillance s...
Server replication is a common approach to improving the scalability of a service on the Internet. For this approach, the task of finding an appropriate server from a set of repli...
Mohamed-Vall O. Mohamed-Salem, Gregor von Bochmann...