—Divisible loads are those workloads that can be partitioned by a scheduler into any arbitrary chunks. The problem of scheduling divisible loads has been defined for a long time,...
Web services -- Web-accessible programs and devices ? are a key application area for the Semantic Web. With the proliferation of Web services and the evolution towards the Semanti...
This paper focuses on two problems related to QoS-aware I/O server placement in hierarchical Grid environments. Given a hierarchical network with requests from clients, the network...
In traditional fixed-wired networks, standard protocols like 2-Phase-Commit are used to guarantee atomicity for distributed transactions. However, within mobile networks, a highe...
The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery method for the pervasive computing environment. The method is based on the concept of small world, policy-based advertiseme...