A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...
We propose the design of Plug, an application to find and keep contacts with friends within many inter-connected 3D virtual worlds. Users use an instant messenger (IM)-like inter...
In federated Data Grids, individual institutions share their data sets within a community to enable collaborative data analysis. Data access needs to be provided in a scalable fas...
Tobias Scholl, Richard Kuntschke, Angelika Reiser,...
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of EnviroMic, a novel distributed acoustic monitoring, storage, and trace retrieval system. Audio represents one of ...
Liqian Luo, Qing Cao, Chengdu Huang, Tarek F. Abde...
Several challenges about computational grid exist in integrating, coordinating and managing of resources and scheduling of applications, due to distributed resources at various le...