This paper presents the Virtual EZ Grid project, based on the XtremWeb-CH (XWCH) volunteer computing platform. The goal of the project is to introduce a flexible distributed comput...
Mohamed Ben Belgacem, Nabil Abdennadher, Marko Nii...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
Applications structured as parallel task graphs exhibit both data and task parallelism, and arise in many domains. Scheduling these applications on parallel platforms has been a lo...
—The research area of Multimedia Content Analysis (MMCA) considers all aspects of the automated extraction of new knowledge from large multimedia data streams and archives. In re...
R. Yang, Robert D. van der Mei, D. Roubos, Frank J...
We describe the design and the implementation in Java and Jini of a Computational Community, which supports the federation of resources from different organisations. Resources fro...
Nathalie Furmento, Steven Newhouse, John Darlingto...