Network bottlenecks, firewalls, restrictions on IP Multicast availability and administrative policies have long prevented the use of multicast even where the fit seems obvious. ...
In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...
—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...
In heterogeneous and dynamic distributed systems like the Grid, detailed monitoring of workload and its resulting system performance (e.g. response time) is required to facilitate...
Rui Zhang, Steve Moyle, Steve McKeever, Stephen He...
UML activity models (activities, for short) have become widely accepted for specifying the dynamic behavior of use cases. For an adequate specification of use cases in the context...