Using Agents and Ontologies for Application Development on the Semantic Web
White Papers The Semantic Web provides access to heterogeneous, distributed information, enabling software products to mediate between user needs and the information sources available. Some challenges, such as turning software agents into practical abstractions...
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Possible prior art for Microsoft XML patent found
Talkback WDDX (Web Distributed Data eXchange) WDDX stands for Web Distributed Data eXchange. Yet another prior art from 1998: http://www.xml.com/pub/r/502 Date: Sep. Link: http://www.wddx.org Source Author or Organization: Allaire Corporation
[June 3, 2005, 17:08]
Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
News Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that is the focus of a major FBI investigation. The two men, who are not in custody, were indicted...
[October 6, 2008, 13:23]
Ensuring Data Security & Consistency in FTIMA - A Fault Tolerant Infrastructure for Mobile Agents
White Papers Transaction management is one of the most crucial requirements for enterprise application development which often require concurrent access to distributed data shared amongst multiple application / nodes.
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
DCOM Technical Overview
White Papers Microsoft's distributed COM (DCOM) extends the Component Object Model (COM) to support communication among objects on different computers-on a LAN, a WAN, or even the Internet. With DCOM, your application can be distributed at locations that make...
[July 12, 2007, 2:42]
A Multilevel Secure Workflow Management System
White Papers The Department of Defense (DoD) needs multilevel secure (MLS) workflow management systems to enable globally distributed users and applications to cooperate across classification levels to achieve mission critical goals.
[December 15, 2005, 0:01]
Georgian president suffers cyberattack
News The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend. For over 24 hours the website of President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia.has been rendered unavailable due to a multi-pronged...
[July 21, 2008, 17:12]
A Prototype MultiAgent Network Security System
White Papers Distributed Internet-based attacks on computer systems are becoming more prevalent. A system administrator who wishes to detect and handle these distributed attacks must constantly monitor his systems and communicate with other administrators...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Reliable Routing With QoS Guarantees for Multi-Domain IP/MPLS Networks
White Papers This paper presents a distributed routing algorithm for finding two disjoint (primary and backup) QoS paths that run across multiple domains. It is assumed that the PCEs run a joint distributed routing protocol, decoupled from the BGP, which...
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
Using Real Options to Select Stable Middleware - Induced Software Architectures
White Papers The requirements that force decisions towards building distributed system architectures are usually of non-functional nature. The current trend is to build distributed systems with middleware, which provide the application developer with primitives...
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
Feds take DDoS in their stride
Blog The US Department of Homeland Security has said that a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks began on US government networks on 4 July. DHS is aware of distributed denial-of-service attacks on federal and private sector public-facing...
[July 8, 2009, 18:18]
Seti's Boinc project hit by DDoS attack
News The University of California's distributed-computing project that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti) was temporarily knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last week.
[July 29, 2004, 10:10]
Evaluating DHT Implementations in Complex Environments by Network Emulator
White Papers This paper proposes an evaluation method of large-scale distributed hash tables by network emulator that allows evaluating not only Distributed Hash Table (DHT) algorithms but also DHT implementations.
[May 24, 2007, 1:00]
Expand Accelerators Deliver Faster On-Demand Banking Applications to Security Bank
White Papers Financial institutions are dealing with increasingly larger amounts of customer data and business applications that need to be distributed to the branch office. The Accelerators automatically remove WAN inefficiencies and maximize the performance...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Latency Equalization: A Programmable Routing Service Primitive
White Papers Today the Internet is the primary medium for deploying new real time services such as gaming and distributed online live music concerts. However, real-time interactive services such as online gaming and distributed live music performance require...
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
Introduction to the Visual Studio 2005 Application Designer, Part 1
White Papers The Visual Studio 2005 Team Architect edition provides four visual designers collectively known as the Distributed System Designers. Application Designer allows defining the applications that comprise a distributed system.
[March 31, 2007, 1:00]
Z47 Virtual Processor (Palm)
Downloads The Z47 Processor is a Self-Contained Distributed Operating System (SCD-OS) which allows applications written in Z++ to run locally. Components of a Z++ application can be distributed among heterogeneous nodes.
[October 3, 2008, 21:23]
Towards Multi-Layer Trusted Virtual Domains
White Papers This paper addresses the fine-grained control of information flow between distributed applications to protect transactions. Confining transactions in distributed untrusted environments is crucial for Web services, distributed computing, and most e...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
PACISSO: P2P Access Control Incorporating Scalability and Self-Organization for Storage Systems
White Papers A common challenge in fully distributed storage systems is the management of access rights to stored files. PACISSO is an efficient and scalable solution for distributed access control, applicable to systems consisting entirely of untrusted nodes.
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
A Standard for Architecture
White Papers Among the various architecture approaches, there is a useful standard that defines what information systems architecture means, the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP). RM-ODP is a recently completed International standard that...
[March 24, 2009, 0:20]



