The Globus Data Grid architecture provides a scalable infrastructure for the management of storage resources and data that are distributed across Grid environments. These services...
Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Steven Tuecke, Ian T. Foster
: This paper presents an agent-based system for building and operating agent-based context-aware services in public spaces, including museums. The system provides users with agents...
In this paper, we motivate the importance of the field of mobile computing and survey current practical and formal approaches. We argue that the existing formalisms are not suffic...
Klaus Bergner, Radu Grosu, Andreas Rausch, Alexand...
Novel forms of collaboration increasingly distribute control among e-workers, thereby allowing agile and autonomous collaboration. However, this requires a novel blend of infrastr...
Daniel Schall, Christoph Dorn, Schahram Dustdar, I...
We present a “black-box” approach to estimating query cardinality that has no knowledge of query execution plans and data distribution, yet provides accurate estimates. It doe...