Abstract. Autonomic computing networks manage multiple tasks over a distributed network of resources. In this paper, we view an autonomic computing system as a network of queues, w...
In this paper we sketch a framework supporting contract enactment within the context of virtual organisation units that are dynamically created in order to achieve a common object...
Theodosis Dimitrakos, Ivan Djordjevic, Zoran Milos...
The main purpose of many current peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is off-line file sharing. However, a potentially very promising use of such networks is to share video streams (e.g.,...
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Given a set of machines and a set of Web applications with dynamically changing demands, an online application placement controller decides how many instances to run for each appl...
Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Mike Spreitze...