vices provide an important abstract layer on top of heterogeneous components (hardware and software) that take part into a grid environment. In this scenario, applications, like sc...
— We present an investigation of specialization when considering the execution of collaborative tasks by a robot swarm. Specifically, we consider the stick-pulling problem firs...
Web services are becoming the dominant paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developers...
While online service providers are sometimes accused of forwarding identifying customer information as name and address to untrusted third parties, comparatively little attention ...
Desktop Grids represent an alternative trend in Grid computing using the same software infrastructure as Volunteer Computing projects, such as BOINC. Applications to be deployed o...