In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...
This paper presents an architecture for resource sharing in Personal Networks (PNs). Resources are not necessarily in the same authentication domain and the group that uses them is...
Routing as well as the management of communicationnetworks that support hybrid types of communications requiring quality of service is a very hard problem. We present here a frame...
Enterprise applications need to be highly available and scalable. In the past, this has required “stateless” applications, which essentially require the application to manage ...
The Web Services Resource Framework (WS-RF) and the Web Services Notification (WS-N) specifications are a crucial component of Grid infrastructures. They provide a standardized int...