Guest Editorial: Security in Distributed and Network-Based Computing
Security should be a vitally important property of distributed and networked systems. While attack tools are becoming more powerful and easy-to-use, research and development of adaptive, active and intelligent security systems is required. Finding effective ways to protect networked and distributed systems and data is a very challenging research problem. The special issue aims to provide the latest developments in the area of security systems. The issue focuses on problems related to confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, dependability and sustainability of distributed and networked systems. This special issue includes five papers that outline different aspects of security in distributed and network-based computing. Most of them are selected from papers submitted to and presented in Special Session ”Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNS 2015)” on 23th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2015), Turku, Finland, 4-6 March 2015. The first paper [1], Runtime Model Checking for SLA Compliance Monitoring and QoS Prediction, proposes a quality of service prediction approach which combines runtime monitoring of the computer system with probabilistic model-checking on a parametric system model. This approach is validated by development of a prototype of the quality of service prediction framework, and experimenting with a smart grids case study.