Recent research has demonstrated the benefits of active networks: customized network services can easily be built and modified, packet streams can be processed inside the network...
Resource and service discovery, data transfer or replica management, are some examples of basic operations of a grid which can gain efficiency by using multicast transmission tech...
This paper explores a novel interface to a system administration task. Instead of creating an interface de novo for the task, the author modified a popular computer game, Doom, to...
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...
Abstract. Web services are increasingly being used in business critical environments, enabling uniform access to services provided by distinct parties. In these environments, an op...