Business applications are more and more often developed on the basis of Web services. The aim is to provide platform independence and loose coupling between business applications ...
Digital Preservation deals with the long-term storage, access, and maintenance of digital data objects. In order to prevent a loss of information, digital libraries and archives a...
Service providers of the future could dynamically negotiate for, and create their infrastructure on Grid based utility computing and communication providers. Such commercialisatio...
Understanding the characteristics of the users’ workload is an important aspect when designing and providing web services. The majority of current workload characterization tech...
The resource availability in Grids is generally unpredictable due to the autonomous and shared nature of the Grid resources and stochastic nature of the workload resulting in a be...