As part of an investigation of scalable development techniques for systems written in the JavaTM programming language, the Forest Project is building JP, a prototype distributed pr...
Web Services are designed for loosely coupled systems, which means that in many cases it is not possible to synchronously upgrade all peers of a Web Service scenario. Instead, Web ...
— Industry is more and more interested in executing business functions that span multiple applications. This demands high-levels of interoperability and a more flexible and adapt...
Abstract--Network performance can be increased if the traditionally separated network layers are jointly optimized. Recently, network utility maximization has emerged as a powerful...
In high energy physics, bioinformatics, and other disciplines, we encounter applications involving numerous, loosely coupled jobs that both access and generate large data sets. So...