Emerging large scale utility computing systems like Grids promise computing and storage to be provided to end users as a utility. System management services deployed in the middle...
The large amount of information now available on the Web can play a prominent role in building a cooperative intelligent distance learning environment. We propose a system to prov...
Mohammed Abdel Razek, Claude Frasson, Marc Kaltenb...
The production of geological mapping by conventional processes is a complex work of data gathering and integration, along with expert and team analysis. This process is very time c...
While many multimedia systems allow the association of semantic annotations with media assets, there is no agreedupon way of sharing these among systems. As an initial step within...
Lynda Hardman, Zeljko Obrenovic, Frank Nack, Brigi...
We consider the problem of scheduling tasks with unpredictable service times on distinct processing nodes so as to meet a real-time deadline, given that all communication among no...