—Cloud Computing, born in the e-business context, and GRID computing, originated in the e-science context, are two different but similar paradigms for managing large sets of dist...
Abstract. Virtual Interacting Network CommunIty (Vinci) is an abstract architecture to share in a secure way an ICT infrastructure among several user communities, each with its own...
The support of QoS properties in component-based software requires the run-time selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts at the ports of the interacting components. Such a s...
Just-in-time (JIT) compilation has previously been used in many applications to enable standard software binaries to execute on different underlying processor architectures. Howev...