Computing is moving toward a pervasive context-aware environment in which agents with limited resources will require external support to help them become context-aware. In this pa...
—The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) leverages ice abstraction to enable the development of modular, loose-coupled and distributed applications. In order to use such an archi...
The number of features that are supported in modern multimedia devices is increasing faster than ever. Estimating the performance of such applications when they are running on sha...
Akash Kumar, Bart Mesman, Henk Corporaal, Bart D. ...
One of the guiding principles of the Grid is local (site) autonomy. Resource owners maintain control over their resources even when those resources are part of a larger Grid. In o...
Jun Feng, Lingling Cui, Glenn S. Wasson, Marty Hum...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling concurrent jobs on clusters where application data is stored on the computing nodes. This setting, in which scheduling computations ...
Michael Isard, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Jon Currey, Ud...