Abstract. The heterogeneous and unreliable nature of distributed systems has created a distinct need for the inclusion of provenance within their design to allow for error correcti...
MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
—There exists numerous Grid middleware to develop and execute programs on the computational Grid, but they still require intensive work from their users. BitDew is made to facili...
—Current multimedia application deployment tends to rely on composable service systems, where a complex multimedia service can be composed dynamically from multiple simpler ones ...
The asymptotic distribution of estimates that are based on a sub-optimal search for the maximum of the log-likelihood function is considered. In particular, estimation schemes that...