With the development of wireless communication and portable devices, people can now enjoy the benefits of mobile computing. But due to the nature and design of portable devices, i...
The facility location problem described in this paper comes from an industrial application in the slaughterhouse industry of Norway. Investigations show that the slaughterhouse in...
Cyberinfrastructures bring together distributed resources to support scientific discoveries. Cyberinfrastructures currently under development are intended to enable the cooperativ...
Open-source software development projects are almost always collaborative and distributed. Despite the difficulties imposed by distance, these projects have managed to produce lar...
Explosive increase in end-user computing on distributed systems requires that end-users develop application software by themselves. One solution is given as a formula of “a doma...