Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
—This paper describes Herald, an agent based toolkit for dispatching and processing items in a distributed environment. Herald is suitable for scenarios where the process could b...
Christian Vecchiola, Alberto Grosso, Andrea Passad...
Explosive increase in end-user computing on distributed systems requires that end-users develop application software by themselves. One solution is given as aformula of "adom...
Declarative models play an important role in most software design activities, by allowing designs to be constructed that selectively abstract over complex implementation details. ...
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Tony Griffiths, Norman W....
Pervasive computing is an emerging computing paradigm, which is expected to be part of our everyday life in the foreseeable future. The coordination among heterogeneous devices, s...