The lack of a flexible consistency management solution hinders P2P implementation of applications involving updates, such as read-write file sharing, directory services, online ...
Large scale bioinformatics experiments are usually composed by a set of data flows generated by a chain of activities (programs or services) that may be modeled as scientific work...
Helios is an operating system designed to simplify the task of writing, deploying, and tuning applications for heterogeneous platforms. Helios introduces satellite kernels, which ...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Orion Hodson, Ross McIlroy,...
This experience paper summarizes the key lessons we learned throughout the design and implementation of the Aurora stream processing engine. For the past two years, we have built f...
Hari Balakrishnan, Magdalena Balazinska, Donald Ca...
Abstract. We discuss a case study for the hospital scenario where workflow model components are distributed across various computers or devices (e.g. mobile phones, PDAs, sensors, ...