Abstract— There are many applications where a timely response to an important event is needed. Often such response can require significant computation and possibly communication...
We discuss real-world case studies involving the implementation of a web services middleware tier for the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer to support financial business applications...
Thomas Phan, Ramesh Natarajan, Satoki Mitsumori, H...
In this paper, we present techniques for exploiting intermittently available resources in grid infrastructures to support QoS-based multimedia applications on mobile devices. Spec...
The increasing popularity of XML Web services motivates us to examine if it is feasible to substitute one vendor service for another when using a Web-based application, assuming th...
The complexity of developing and deploying context-aware pervasive-computing applications calls for distributed software infrastructures that assist applications to collect, aggre...