A consistency protocol can be termed symmetric if all processors are treated identically when they access common resources. By contrast, asymmetric protocols usually assign a home...
In this paper, we present a performance evaluation of a wide-area cluster system based on a rewallenabled Globus metacomputing toolkit. In order to establish communication links ...
— Healthcare and economic drivers have increased the desire to deploy systems for continuous monitoring of patients, both in hospital and outpatient settings. Such systems must o...
Stephen Strowes, Nagwa Badr, Steven Heeps, Emil Lu...
Application systems in the earth observation area can be characterised as distributed, platform-inhomogeneous, complex, and cost intensive information systems. In order to manage t...
The growing popularity of web applications in the last few years has led users to give the management of their data to online application providers, which will endanger the securi...
Zhi Guan, Zhen Cao, Xuan Zhao, Ruichuan Chen, Zhon...