: The LifeWatch Reference Model provides the basis for an interoperable ICT infrastructure for European biodiversity research building on standards whenever feasible. Distinguishin...
Users and developers of grid applications have access to increasing numbers of resources. While more resources generally mean higher capabilities for an application, they also rai...
Grid applications require allocating a large number of heterogeneous tasks to distributed resources. A good allocation is critical for efficient execution. However, many existing ...
James Blythe, S. Jain, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, K...
The Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) defines a distributed system framework by integrating Grid and Web services technologies to facilitate resource sharing. In OGSI, Web ...
Kuo-Ming Chao, Muhammad Younas, Nathan Griffiths, ...
Abstract. In this paper, we identify some problems with current formalizations of conditional commitments, i.e. commitments to achieve a goal if some condition becomes true. We pre...