— The ability to self-replicate is one of the distinctive features of living organisms. Robots capable of self-replication would have a profound impact on the field of robotics ...
Steven Eno, Lauren Mace, Jianyi Liu, Brian Benson,...
This paper presents a novel approach for resource finding and job allocation in a computational Grid. The proposed system is called HYGRA, for HYperspace-based Grid Resource Alloca...
Fabrizio Messina, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Corrado San...
Elastic systems provide tolerance to the variations in computation and communication delays. The incorporation of elasticity opens new opportunities for optimization using new corr...
Jordi Cortadella, Marc Galceran Oms, Michael Kishi...
: New Information Technologies (IT) offer a new way for teaching and learning. Rather than simply duplicate old learning materials and make them correspond to the new IT tools, it ...
Maurice Ndaye Mukuna, Jacques Vancleve, Philippe C...
This paper introduces a new programming model for distributed systems, distributed composite objects (DCO), to meet efficient implementation, transparency, and performance demands ...