Background: Many bioinformatics analyses, ranging from gene clustering to phylogenetics, produce hierarchical trees as their main result. These are used to represent the relations...
An important investigation of time series involves searching for \movement" patterns, such as \going up" or \going down" or some combinations of them. Movement patt...
In this paper, we consider the communications involved in the execution of a complex application, deployed on a heterogeneous platform. Such applications extensively use macro-com...
Automatic management of large-scale production systems requires a continuous monitoring service to keep track of the states of the managed system. However, it is challenging to ac...
The recent success of Internet-based computing projects, coupled with rapid developments in peer-to-peer systems, has stimulated interest in the notion of harvesting idle cycles u...