The clear trend toward the integration of current and emerging applications and services in the Internet launches new demands on service deployment and management. Distributed serv...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
— The trend in Grid computing towards more data intensive applications, accessing more and more relational databases and requiring advanced integration of secondhand and publicly...
We describe a very large scale distributed robotic system, involving a team of over 100 robots, that has been successfully deployed in large, unknown indoor environments, over ext...
Application development for distributed-computing ``Grids'' can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the ...
Nicholas T. Karonis, Brian R. Toonen, Ian T. Foste...