We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...
Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...
Web service choreography describes protocols for multiparty collaboration, whereas orchestration focuses on single peers. One key requirement of choreography is to support transact...
Coupling of cross-organizational business processes in electronic markets is a difficult and time-consuming task. In practice business processes are geographically distributed whic...
Recent advances in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) offer a significant new approach to studying semantic representations in humans by making it possible to directly o...
Kai-min K. Chang, Vladimir Cherkassky, Tom M. Mitc...