Global Computing. Programming Environments, Languages, Security, and Analysis of Systems

Download or read book Global Computing. Programming Environments, Languages, Security, and Analysis of Systems written by Corrado Priami and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the revised refereed summary of the results presented during the European IST/FET proactive initiative's Global Computing workshop, GC 2003, held in Rovereto, Italy, in February 2003. The eight revised full papers and survey articles presented together with a detailed introductory overview assess the state of the art in global computing. Global computing attempts to develop models, frameworks, methods, and algorithms to build systems that are flexible, dependable, secure, robust, and efficient. The dominant technical issues are coordination, interaction, security, safety, scalability, robustness, mobility, risk management, performance analysis, etc.