Internet-based Grid computing is emerging as one of the most promising technologies that may change the world. Dr. Hwang and his research team at the University of Southern California (USC) are working on self-defense tools to protect Grid resources from cyber attacks or malicious intrusions, automatically. This project builds an automated intrusion response and trust management system to facil...

The publication of this book on adoption marks a double event: an area until now only sketchily surveyed has been charted, and for the first time in this country a book on the subject has been written by a professional social worker who speaks with that authority which stems from wide experience. Scope and approach prove that the author is equally practised in appreciating adopters' hopes and f...