This paper describes an exploratory field study on the adoption of Application Service Provisioning (ASP) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Rooted in Merton’s Motiva...
High-performance execution in distributed computing environments often requires careful selection and configuration not only of computers, networks, and other resources but also o...
Steven Fitzgerald, Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, ...
Charging of services in a distributed system will become more and more important for systems which are utilized commercially. Such an important distributed system exists in form o...
Burkhard Stiller, Jan Gerke, Placi Flury, Peter Re...
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...
Abstract. Due to the complexity and uncertainties, the engineering process requires dynamic collaborations among the heterogeneous systems and human interactions. In this paper, we...
Jian Cao, Jie Wang, Shen-sheng Zhang, Minglu Li, K...