An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...
Process descriptions are used in workflow and related systems to describe the flow of work and organisational responsibility in business processes, and to aid in coordination. How...
Paul Dourish, Richard Bentley, Rachel Jones, Allan...
When using the computer, each user has some notion that "these applications are important" at a given point in time. We term this subset of applications that the user va...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff, Joseph Subid...
In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...
— The Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) technique is the basis of numerous state-of-the-art energy management schemes proposed for real-time embedded systems. However, recent researc...