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Federated Authorization for Software-as-a-Service Applications

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a type of cloud computing in which a tenant rents access to a shared, typically web-based application hosted by a provider. Access control for SaaS should enable the tenant to control access to data that are located at the provider based on tenant-specific access control policies. To achieve this, state-of-practice SaaS applications provide application-specific a...

USENIX HotCloud 10 IT Service Management1 for Federated Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

Business information technology (IT) is constantly evolving. In recent years, it has moved from the proprietary world of mainframes and minicomputers to the more distributed world of client/server, and now to a networked world of web services based on open protocols and standards. Standardization, componentization, and mass market commodity hardware and software continue to underpin the evoluti...

A License Scheme for a Global Federated Language Service Infrastructure

Language service infrastructures are an efficient means for hosting tools and services and processing data, but they can cause complications for licensing language resources. This paper describes the proposed license scheme for the US Language Application (LAPPS) Grid -an open grid incorporating diverse tools, services and resources – and suggests that the LAPPS Grid license approach can be ext...

Design of a Service-Oriented Architecture for Federated Systems

A Federated System is a collection of independent, cooperative, possibly heterogeneous and autonomous computer systems (usually database systems) which allows sharing all or some of its data. A Service-Oriented Architecture is an application architecture whose functionalities are defined as independent services which offer transparent communication between physically distributed components, pos...

Federated Identity as Capabilities