Nodes in an ad hoc grid are characterized by heterogeneity, autonomy, and volatility. These characteristics result in varying workload of the resource manager in the ad hoc grid. ...
Web services are self-contained, modular units of application logic which provide business functionality to other applications via Internet connections. Several models have been u...
With the flurry of research on P2P computing, many P2P technical challenges have emerged, one of which is how to efficiently locate desired resources. Advances have been made in...
— It is generally accepted that locomotion in animals is based on a trade-off between energy consumption and stability. However, this trade-off is the result of the interaction b...
Awareness of individual and group activities is critical to successful collaboration and is commonly supported in CSCW systems by active, information generation mechanisms separat...