Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Simple resource specification, resource selection, and effective binding are critical capabilities for Grid middleware. We the Virtual Grid, an abstraction for dynamic grid applic...
Yang-Suk Kee, D. Logothetis, Richard Y. Huang, Hen...
A grid virtual enterprise is a community of independent enterprises concerned with a particular sector of the economy. Its members (nodes) are small or medium size enterprises (SME...
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Alessandro D'Atri, Andrea Gualt...
Today globally distributed software development has become the norm for many organizations and the popularity of implementing such an approach continues to increase. In these circ...