entifies three levels of abstraction for resource requirements a service provider needs to manage, detailed specification of raw resources, virtualization of heterogeneous resource...
Asit Dan, Kavitha Ranganathan, Catalin Dumitrescu,...
The globalization of businesses and the cooperation between organizations have brought on an ever increased need for providing support for distributed collaborations. In this pape...
Abstract. Utility computing offers researchers and businesses the potential of significant cost-savings in that it is possible for them to match the cost of their computing and s...
Terence J. Harmer, Peter Wright, Christina Cunning...
Today’s global markets demand global processes. Increasingly, these processes are not only distributed, but also contain mobile aspects. We discuss two challenges brought about b...
In the ubiquitous computing environment, we believe that P2P-based context-aware application utilizing sensing data is important. However, since sensors are not placed under the c...