Computer users express a strong desire to prevent attacks and to reduce the losses from computer and information security breaches. However, security compromises are common and wi...
Over the past decade, system architectures have started on a clear trend towards increased parallelism and heterogeneity, often resulting in speedups of 10x to 100x. Despite numer...
Java's design goals of portability, safety, and ubiquity make it a potentially ideal language for large-scale heterogeneous computing. One of the remaining challenges is to c...
Fast networks have made it possible to coordinate distributed heterogeneous CPU, memory, and storage resources to provide a powerful platform for executing high-performance applic...
: Software agents are often employed in distributed environments to cope with the various dynamical dimensions of such systems. Furthermore, the paradigm of agent-oriented software...