{"title":"Biometrics Could Streamline Border Crossings","authors":"G. Goth","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.12","url":null,"abstract":"Both the US and the EU are moving toward biometrically enabled travel documents and new border-control proposals meant to combine greater security and more convenience for legitimate travelers. However, technology and policy differences characterize a bumpy journey.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132248915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Grid Technologies to PhD Students, Part 2: Course Structure and Experiences","authors":"D. Petcu","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.13","url":null,"abstract":"Grid technologies serving large distributed systems can help address many application areas' computing and storage needs. Consequently, the scientific and large-scale information processing communities are increasingly interested in studying large-scale distributed systems, such as Grid-based ones. Unfortunately, there are relatively few reports on best practices in teaching Grid topics that teachers can follow when they start building a new Grid-related course. The second installment of this two-part department presents a case study of the author's experiences in teaching Grid computing to PhD students over the last three years.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124018751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terror on the Internet: A Complex Issue, and Getting Harder","authors":"G. Goth","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.11","url":null,"abstract":"The fight against terror on the World Wide Web, chat rooms, and forums tends to take a maddeningly circular route. Politicians demand a crackdown on the terrorist presence on the Web, calling on ISPs to develop new technologies that will block access to terrorist sites or to detect their origin and shut them down. Just as quickly, the sites' operators relaunch from another host. Courts have found numerous efforts to thwart terror to be an abridgment of users' rights of free speech; white-hat security analysts cringe when the political posturing leads to dismantling sites they've been surreptitiously monitoring. In the past two months, the United Kingdom has become the latest microcosm illustrating the dizzying complexity governments face as they attempt to balance stifling terror on the Internet with free speech and information access.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126696769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Grid Technologies to PhD Students, Part 1: Using Best Practices to Build the Course","authors":"D. Petcu","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.10","url":null,"abstract":"Grid technologies serving large distributed systems can help address many application areas' computing and storage needs. Consequently, the scientific and large-scale information processing communities are increasingly interested in studying large-scale distributed systems, such as Grid-based ones. Unfortunately, there are relatively few reports on best practices in teaching Grid topics that teachers can follow when they start building a new Grid-related course. Part 1 of this two-part department surveys reported efforts. Most of these efforts concern training activities organized by research teams for Grid user communities, but some discuss semester-long courses for advanced computer science or computer engineering students.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130007326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Classification of Emerging and Traditional Grid Systems","authors":"H. Kurdi, Maozhen Li, H. Al-Raweshidy","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.8","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in grid computing are stimulating the emergence of novel types of grids, such as accessible, manageable, interactive, and personal grids. More and more researchers are realizing emerging grids' potential to bridge the gap between grid technologies and users. This review of emerging grids sets out to develop a comprehensive classification of both traditional and emerging grid systems, with an aim to motivate further research and to help establish a solid foundation in this rapidly developing field.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129329095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Agent Systems with JADE: A Guide with Extensive Study","authors":"M. Gawinecki, G. Frackowiak","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.9","url":null,"abstract":"A review of Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE by Fabio Luigi Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire, and Dominic Greenwood","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"15 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131575539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Social Networking Sites Growing Up?","authors":"G. Goth","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.4","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers and developers are finding great opportunities in youth-oriented social networking sites, but legal and privacy issues are emerging as the platforms expand.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125533287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computing Curricula for the 21st Century","authors":"A. Kornecki","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.5","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the role and place of software engineering in modern computing curricula, focusing on dependable systems that can be implemented using microprocessors and programmable logic. In this time of the increasing role of software and proliferation of computing in all areas of technology and human endeavor, there is critical need for education of engineers who can understand the system as a whole, appreciating both software and hardware and their mutual connection. The similarity and difference of approaches between traditional computing software and modern programmable-logic hardware is discussed. Modern systems require good engineering considering not only the system's functionality but also dependability and safety.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117310905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Middleware for Distributed Video Surveillance","authors":"A. Kornecki","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.7","url":null,"abstract":"Graduates of computer science (CS) and software engineering (SE) programs are typically employed to develop industry-strength software. Computer engineering (CE) programs focus primarily on computing-system design, often with significant software components. These three programs have different emphases: development of new algorithms versus development of large, complex software systems versus development of small embedded software and device drivers. All three areas require good SE practices.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122679996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}