Despite recent developments in higher-level middleware for the Grid supporting high level of ease-of-programming, hurdles for widespread adoption of Grids remain high, due to (1) ...
As Web Services have matured they have been substantially leveraged within the academic, research and business communities. An exemplar of this is the realignment, last year, of t...
This paper describes JADIMA (Java Distributed Machine), a collaborative platform to construct high performance distributed JAVA applications. JADIMA is a system that automatically...
In ad-hoc Grids where the availability of resources and tasks changes over the time, distributing the tasks among the scarce resources in a balanced way is a challenging task. In ...
Web and grid services are quickly maturing as a technology that allows for the integration of applications belonging to different administrative domains, enabling much faster and ...
Ana Carolina Barbosa, Jacques Philippe Sauvé...