With the emergence of global market and virtual enterprises, coordination of business processes in dispersed organizations by distributed workflow execution will take on more impo...
Most space-sharing parallel computers presently operated by high-performance computing centers use batch-queuing systems to manage processor allocation. Because these machines are...
The rapid diffusion of heterogeneous forms of wireless connectivity is pushing the tremendous growth of the commercial interest in mobile services, i.e., distributed applications ...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli
Abstract. Cloud computing platforms provide scalability and high availability properties for web applications but they sacrifice data consistency at the same time. However, many a...
In Grid systems, nontrivial qualities of service have to be provided to users by the resource providers. However, resource management in a decentralized infrastructure is a complex...