The cost and complexity of administration of large systems has come to dominate their total cost of ownership. Stateless and soft-state components, such as Web servers or network ...
Autonomic computing has been proposed recently as a way to address the difficult management of applications whose complexity is constantly increasing. Autonomous applications will ...
Data breaches due to stolen laptops are a major problem. Solutions exist to secure sensitive files on laptops, but are rarely deployed because users view them as inconvenient. Thi...
Data provenance is essential in applications such as scientific computing, curated databases, and data warehouses. Several systems have been developed that provide provenance fun...
Rapid advances in networking, hardware, and middleware technologies are facilitating the development and deployment of complex grid applications, such as large-scale distributed co...