Location is one of the most important contexts used in the applications in the pervasive computing environments . It helps the application do the right thing at the right place. O...
Users and developers of grid applications have access to increasing numbers of resources. While more resources generally mean higher capabilities for an application, they also rai...
The SOAP protocol underpins Web services as the standard mechanism for exchanging information in a distributed environment. The XML-based protocol offers advantages including exte...
Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Ken...
The performance skeleton of an application is a short running program whose performance in any scenario reflects the performance of the application it represents. Such a skeleton ...
Grid computing brings with it additional complexities and unexpected failures. Just keeping track of our jobs traversing different grid resources before completion can at times be...