We describe imprecise calendars, a way to organize and schedule clusters of nodes in a computation grid. Imprecise calendars permit the easy and efficient sharing of resources bet...
State-of-the-art and emerging scientific applications require fast access to large quantities of data and commensurately fast computational resources. Both resources and data are ...
Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Gene Tsudik, Steven...
This paper examines how service providers may resolve the trade-off between their personalization efforts and users' individual privacy concerns. We analyze how negotiation te...
This paper proposes an open, extensible control plane for a global event service, based on semantically rich messages. This is based on the novel application of control plane separ...
David Lewis, John Keeney, Declan O'Sullivan, Song ...
In this paper, we consider equity-linked life insurance contracts that give their holder the possibility to surrender their policy before maturity. Such contracts can be valued us...