In this paper we propose a system that will allow people to communicate their status with friends and family when they find themselves caught up in a large disaster (e.g., sending...
One of the main shortcomings of Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers is their inability to mix between modes of the target distribution. In this paper we show that advance knowledge ...
—The increasing demand for resources of the high performance computing systems has led to new forms of collaboration of distributed systems such as interoperable grid systems tha...
—Pervasive computing is fast becoming a reality with rapid advance in computing and networking technologies. It has the characteristics of scalability, invisibility, and the abse...
—Federated computing environments offer requestors the ability to dynamically invoke services offered by collaborating providers in the virtual service network. Without an effici...