Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
This paper describes issues in the design of IT-centric trouble-ticketing applications. Two prototypes are presented. The first introduces a user-centric, webaccessible thick clie...
The greater sophistication and availability of mobile computing devices is enabling the application of computing to new tasks and applications to be experienced in a wide range of...
Users and developers of grid applications have access to increasing numbers of resources. While more resources generally mean higher capabilities for an application, they also rai...
Grid computing has emerged as a new paradigm of distributed computing technology on large-scale resource sharing and coordinated problem solving. Based on a proposed Web service-b...