Large-scale cluster-based Internet services often host partitioned datasets to provide incremental scalability. The aggregation of results produced from multiple partitions is a f...
—The computational Grid concept is gaining great popularity as the best way to deliver access to a wide range of distributed computing and data resources. But, as Grids move from...
—For demanding Grid applications that use resources at different cluster sites a reservation mechanism ensures the availability of resources to guarantee a certain level of QoS. ...
Christoph Barz, Peter Martini, Markus Pilz, Floria...
Making backup is so cumbersome and expensive that individuals hardly ever backup their data and companies usually duplicate their data into a secondary server. This paper proposes...
In the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (IRL) at Vanderbilt University we seek to develop service robots with a high level of social intelligence and interactivity. In order to ach...
Mitchell Wilkes, W. Anthony Alford, Robert T. Pack...