From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...
Abstract. The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is currently participating in the European HPCN Fourth Framework project on Parallel Industrial NumErical Applications and Portable Lib...
Clustering is a well known technique that allows scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems. In the J2EE framework, clustering can be used to improve the performance a...
Graphs are well-known, well-understood, and frequently used means to depict networks of related items. They are successfully used as the underlying mathematical concept in various ...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...