—Virtual machines offer unique advantages to the scientific computing community, such as Quality of Service(QoS) guarantee, performance isolation, easy resource management, and ...
Lizhe Wang, Gregor von Laszewski, Marcel Kunze, Ji...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
Digital Libraries can be considered islands of specialized collections on the Web, which have their own management policy to control publishing and access, offering an environment...
As people accumulate hundreds of “friends” in social media, a flat list of connections becomes unmanageable. Interfaces agnostic to social structure hinder the nuanced sharin...
Diana MacLean, Sudheendra Hangal, Seng Keat Teh, M...
A proxy object is a surrogate or placeholder that controls access to another target object. Proxies can be used to support distributed programming, lazy or parallel evaluation, ac...
Polyvios Pratikakis, Jaime Spacco, Michael W. Hick...