The applications in many scientific fields, like bioinformatics and high-energy physics etc, increasingly demand the computing infrastructures can provide more computing power and...
Xiaohui Wei, Zhaohui Ding, Wilfred W. Li, Osamu Ta...
Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many...
Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C...
—The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) model for Web services based monitoring of remote scientific instruments is being extended and enhanced to provide a capabil...
Douglas du Boulay, Clinton Chee, Kenneth Chiu, Ric...
OCAMS is a practical engineering application of multi-agent systems technology, involving redesign of the tools and practices in a complex, distributed system. OCAMS is designed to...
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Chin Seah, C...
An important issue arising from P2P applications is how to accurately and efficiently retrieve the required Web services from large-scale repositories. This paper resolves this is...