Nowadays many data grid applications need to manage and process a huge amount of data distributed across multiple grid nodes and stored into heterogeneous databases. Grids encoura...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Sandro Fiore, Ma...
Large-scale multiplayer online games require considerable investment in hosting infrastructures. However, the difficulty of predicting the success of a new title makes investing ...
We explore the creation of a metacomputer by the aggregation of independent sites. Joining a metacomputer is voluntary, and hence it has to be an endeavor that mutually benefits a...
High-performance I/O systems depend on prefetching and caching in order to deliver good performance to applications. These two techniques have generally been considered in isolati...
Tracy Kimbrel, Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, ...
ions and techniques such as activity models, storyboards, and programming by demonstration (Y. Li and J. Landay, "Activity-Based Prototyping of Ubicomp Applications for Long-L...