: This is a position paper introducing blob computing: A Blob is a generic primitive used to structure a uniform computing substrate into an easier-to-program parallel virtual mach...
Abstract—Exponential bandwidth scaling has been a fundamental driver of the growth and popularity of the Internet. However, increases in bandwidth have been accompanied by increa...
Joseph Chabarek, Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Crist...
Engineering distributed systems is a challenging activity. This is partly due to the intrinsic complexity of distributed systems, and partly due to the practical obstacles that de...
Yanyan Wang, Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzan...
Over the years, many Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches have dealt with the diagnosis problem and its application in complex environments such as medical domains. Model-Based...
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...