Stigmergy is usually associated with semantically simple problems such as routing. It can be applied to more complex problems by encoding them in the environment through which sti...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Robert B...
In this paper, we address the problem of resource discovery in a grid based multimedia environment, where the resources providers, i.e. servers, are intermittently available. Give...
Manual deployment of the application usually requires expertise both about the underlying system and the application. Automatic service deployment can improve deployment significa...
Data grids, large scale web applications generating dynamic content and database service providing pose significant scalability challenges to database engines. Replication is the ...
— Grid computing requires network services beyond what is currently provided by the Best-Effort Internet. Among the different approaches towards network Quality of Service, aggre...