Typical Grid computing scenarios involve many distributed hardware and software components. The more components that are involved, the more likely it is that one of them may fail....
Dan Gunter, Brian Tierney, Craig E. Tull, Vibha Vi...
The systems and networking community treasures "simple" system designs, but our evaluation of system simplicity often relies more on intuition and qualitative discussion...
The popularity of Service Oriented Computing (SOC) brings a large number of distributed, well-encapsulated and reusable services all over internet, and makes it possible to create...
We define pseudorandom generators for Yao's twoparty communication complexity model and exhibit a simple construction, based on expanders, for it. We then use a recursive com...
Correct synchronization among activities is critical in a business process. Current workflow languages such as BPEL specify the control flow of processes explicitly. However, thei...