How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale, crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated online systems to be mor...
Michel Krieger, Emily Margarete Stark, Scott R. Kl...
The paper begins by considering what a Grid Computing Environment might be, why it is demanded, and how the authors’ HPspmd programming fits into this picture. We then review o...
Han-Ku Lee, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey Fox, Sang Bo...
Abstract. The notion of having a “living lab” to undertaken evaluations has been proposed by a number of proponents within the field of Information Retrieval (IR). However, wh...
Many parallel applications from scientific computing use MPI global communication operations to collect or distribute data. Since the execution times of these communication opera...
Common programming practice grants excess authority for the sake of functionality; programming principles require least authority for the sake of security. If we practice our princ...