While previous CPU- or memory-centric load balancing schemes are capable of achieving the effective usage of global CPU and memory resources in a cluster system, the cluster exhib...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
In this paper we sketch a framework supporting contract enactment within the context of virtual organisation units that are dynamically created in order to achieve a common object...
Theodosis Dimitrakos, Ivan Djordjevic, Zoran Milos...
The university campus is an interesting application environment for the ubiquitous computing paradigm: a large number of users share a substantial amount of their information need...
Peer-to-peer computing paradigm is emerging as a scalable and robust model for sharing media objects. In this paper, we propose an architecture and describe the associated algorit...
Ethernet is a widely used low-cost networking technology. It however lacks the determinism and resource management features needed to meet realtime requirements of multimedia appli...