Several powerful forces are gathering to make fundamental and irrevocable changes to the century-old grid. The nextgeneration grid, often called the `smart grid,' will featur...
Little research exists on one of the most common, oldest, and most utilized forms of online social geographic information: the “location” field found in most virtual community...
Collaborative browsing, or co-browsing, is the co-navigation of the web with other people at-a-distance, supported by software that takes care of synchronizing the browsers. Curre...
— Existing workflow systems attempt to achieve high performance by intelligently scheduling tasks on resources, sometimes even attempting to move the largest data files on the hi...
Scale-out approach, in contrast to scale-up approach (exploring increasing performance by utilizing more powerful shared-memory servers), refers to deployment of applications on a...