Abstract Metacomputing is the seamless application of geographically-separated distributed computing resources to user applications. We consider the scheduling of metaapplications;...
Philips is an electronics company which operates world wide and participates in professional as well as consumer markets. The architecture of many software intensive systems are c...
Periodic data backup is a system administration requirement that has changed as wireless machines have altered the fundamental structure of networks. These changes necessitate a c...
Gregory Pluta, Larry Brumbaugh, William Yurcik, Jo...
Abstract. Search facilities are vital for folksonomy (or social tagging mechanism) based systems. Although these systems allow great malleability and adaptability, they also surfer...
Most current P2P file sharing systems treat their users as anonymous, unrelated entities, and completely disregard any social relationships between them. However, social phenomena...
Johan A. Pouwelse, Pawel Garbacki, Jun Wang, Arno ...