evel of abstraction, we can represent a workflow as a directed graph with operators (or tasks) at the vertices (see Figure 1). Each operator takes inputs from data sources or from ...
A fundamental difficulty faced by groups of agents that work together is how to efficiently coordinate their efforts. This coordination problem is both ubiquitous and challenging,...
Analyzing and controlling large distributed services under a wide range of conditions is difficult. Yet these capabilities are essential to a number of important development and o...
David L. Oppenheimer, Vitaliy Vatkovskiy, Hakim We...
Ring networks are enjoying renewed interest as Storage Area Networks (SANs), i.e., networks for interconnecting storage devices (e.g., disk, disk arrays and tape drives) and stora...
Giuseppe Anastasi, Luciano Lenzini, M. La Porta, Y...
Abstract: File-sharing in mobile networks has differing demands to a P2P architecture. Resource access and mediation techniques must follow constraints given in 2.5G/3G networks. E...
Frank-Uwe Andersen, Hermann de Meer, Ivan Dedinski...