Beginning to create the New Oxford English Dictionary database has resulted in the realization that databases for reference texts are unlike those for conventional enterprises. Wh...
This paper proposes GRIDTS, a grid infrastructure in which the resources select the tasks they execute, on the contrary to traditional infrastructures where schedulers find resou...
The complexity of embedded controllers is steadily increasing. This trend, stimulated by the continuous improvement of the computational power of hardware, demands for a correspond...
Marco Bozzano, Antonella Cavallo, Massimo Cifaldi,...
Conventional implementations of CORBA communication middleware incur significant overhead when used for performance-sensitive applications over high-speed networks. As gigabit ne...
An increasing number of science and engineering applications require distributed and parallel computing resources to satisfy user response-time requirements. Distributed science a...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James, Craig J. Patten...