The availability of large quantities of processors is a crucial enabler of many-task computing. Voluntary computing systems have proven that it is possible to build computing plat...
Rostand Costa, Francisco V. Brasileiro, Guido Lemo...
— The trend in Grid computing towards more data intensive applications, accessing more and more relational databases and requiring advanced integration of secondhand and publicly...
This paper describes the architecture of a distributed workflow management system in a dynamic environment. The system features autonomous agent components that can adapt to both s...
Maryam Purvis, Martin K. Purvis, Azhar Haidar, Bas...
This paper presents a novel adaptation mechanism that allows every node of a gossip-based broadcast algorithm to adjust the rate of message emission 1) to the amount of resources ...
In the near future we expect a widespread deployment of mobile computational resources including network-enabled end devices like Laptops and PDAs. An interesting problem then and ...