The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
With the advent of Web services and orchestration specifications like BPEL it is possible to define workflows on an Internet-scale. In the health-care domain highly structured and ...
Current network infrastructures are experiencing rapid transformation from providing mere connectivity, to a wider range of flexible network services with Quality of Service (QoS)....
When orchestrating data-centric workflows as are commonly found in the sciences, centralised servers can become a bottleneck to the performance of a workflow; output from service i...
- Rapid progress in deployment of national and regional optical network infrastructures holds the promise to provide abundant, inexpensive bandwidth to scientific communities. The ...