An important problem that confronts data grid applications is to efficiently locate the node that stores a particular data replica. This paper proposes a Hierarchical Replica Loca...
We describe a new framework for building a system that consists of tools and services for supporting Cyberinfrastructure based scientific research. This system, called the Semanti...
Geoffrey Fox, Ahmet Fatih Mustacoglu, Ahmet E. Top...
In the last couple of years we have evidenced several initiatives promoting the vision of open educational systems. Educational brokers are supposed to take advantage of this ‘in...
Two limitations of the current implementations of adaptive QoS behaviors are complexity associated with inserting them into common application contexts and lack of reusability acr...
Richard E. Schantz, Joseph P. Loyall, Michael Atig...
Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...