A market-based scheduling mechanism allocates resources indexed by time to alternative uses based on the bids of participating agents. Agents are typically interested in multiple ...
Michael P. Wellman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Danie...
Grid computing is fast emerging as the solution to the problems posed by the massive computational and data handling requirements of many current international scientific project...
Multimedia documents are of importance in several application areas, such as education, training, advertising and entertainment. Since multimedia documents may comprise continuous...
Recently, grid computing has become a popular technology for large-scale scientific or business computing. Grid workflow system can enhance the flexibility and efficiency of the g...
In order to co-ordinate multiple resource providers in grid environment to meet a common objective, support for negotiation is needed to establish a contract between the user and ...
Ponnuram Balakrishnan, S. Thamarai Selvi, Gnanapra...