Secure Distributed Configuration Management with Randomised Scheduling of System-Administration Tasks

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1601-1610

  Sandnes, Frode Eika ^a  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Distributed management; Scheduling; Security; System administration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; SECURITY OF DATA;

DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642264119     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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