Abstract. Provisioning extra resources is necessary when the local resources are not sufficient to meet the user requirements. Commercial Cloud providers offer the extra resources...
BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing, involves projects, which distribute jobs, and hosts, which execute jobs. The local (host-level) scheduler addresses two issues:...
This paper is part of a project to match real-world descriptions of instances of objects to models of objects. We use a rich ontology to describe s and models at multiple levels of...
Instant messaging (IM) has become increasingly popular due to its quick response time, its ease of use, and possibility of multitasking. It is estimated that there are several mil...
We report on our ongoing practical experience in designing, implementing, and deploying PTIME, a personalized agent for time management and meeting scheduling in an open, multi-ag...
Pauline Berry, Bart Peintner, Ken Conley, Melinda ...