Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of a new concept in component communication, expressed by the channel based coordination language called ρέω, in the coordina...
Theophilos A. Limniotes, George A. Papadopoulos, F...
Web Services are considered as a dominant paradigm for constructing and composing distributed business application and enabling enterprise-wide interoperability. A peer to peer arc...
The growing number of web services advocates distributed discovery infrastructures which are semantics-enabled and support quality of service (QoS). In this paper, we introduce a n...
Background: Very often genome-wide data analysis requires the interoperation of multiple databases and analytic tools. A large number of genome databases and bioinformatics applic...
Remko de Knikker, Youjun Guo, Jin-long Li, Albert ...