14 On the receipt of the service request, the QoS manager translates this request on one or more logical configurations based on the profile concept, and produces the corresponding configurations by accessing the system information repository (4). To decide about the possibility of the establishment of a configuration which is the mapping result of a logical configuration, the QoS manager asks ...

The Security functionality provided by the protocols is almost equivalent. While the FTAM and RDA authentication and authorisation mechanisms are a mere mapping to those of the accessed file system or database, DFR defines own mechanisms. No sound statements on efficiency and reliability issues of the protocols can be made right now. These have to be derived from experiences with trial implemen...

A reliable multicast protocol enables a process to multicast a message to a group of processes in a way that ensures that all honest destination-group members receive the same message, even if some group members and the multicast initiatorare maliciously faulty. Reliable multicast has been shown to be useful for building multiparty cryptographic protocols and secure distributed services. We pre...

Abstract The GLES Open Science Challenge 2021 was a pilot project aimed at demonstrating that registered reports are an appropriate and beneficial publication format in quantitative political science helps to increase transparency replicability the research process thus yields substantial relevant contributions our discipline. resulted of this special issue, which includes seven based on data f...