The need to conduct and manage large sets of experiments for scientific applications dramatically increased over the last decade. However, there is still very little tool support ...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...
The user experience for networked applications is becoming a key benchmark for customers and network providers. Perceived user experience is largely determined by the frequency, d...
Hidden information is a critical issue for the successful delivery of SLAs in grid systems. It arises when the agents (hardware and software resources) employed to serve a task be...
Next-generation Government Information Systems will integrate large amounts of heterogeneous data sources located on distributed networks like the Internet. We present Net Travele...