Abstract. As the amount of information and communication increases dramatically new working environments must provide efficient mechanisms to maximize the benefits of these develop...
Albrecht Schmidt, Alexander Specker, Gerhard Parts...
While distributed, heterogeneous collections of computers (“Grids”) can in principle be used as a computing platform, in practice the problems of first discovering and then co...
Chuang Liu, Lingyun Yang, Ian T. Foster, Dave Angu...
Contract and rights management – and thus property rights protection – has gained increasing importance as a quality standard in brokerage and electronic commerce environments...
This paper presents a Service-Oriented Process Model (SOM) to build a web-services based process management system, called MIDAS that would support distributed Design and Manufact...
Moon-Jung Chung, Woongsup Kim, Ravi Gopalan, Hong ...
The increasing demand for high-bandwidth applications such as video-on-demand and grid computing is reviving interest in bandwidth reservation schemes. Earlier attempts did not ca...
David Michael Turner, Vassilis Prevelakis, Angelos...