Information-rich environments are the open environments that characterize most of the modern applications of computing technology. The applications include ubiquitous information a...
When users' tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment (e.g., cluster of heterogeneous computers) are allocated resources, the total demand placed on some sys...
Jong-Kook Kim, Debra A. Hensgen, Taylor Kidd, Howa...
Maintaining correct access control to shared resources such as file servers, wikis, and databases is an important part of enterprise network management. A combination of many fact...
To use their pool of resources efficiently, distributed stream-processing systems push query operators to nodes within the network. Currently, these operators, ranging from simple...
Peter R. Pietzuch, Jonathan Ledlie, Jeffrey Shneid...
Through a study of field biology practices, we observed that biology fieldwork generates a wealth of heterogeneous information, requiring substantial labor to coordinate and disti...
Ron B. Yeh, Chunyuan Liao, Scott R. Klemmer, Fran&...