Collaborative work environments for scientific knowledge have many applications in research as well as in education. Such systems already exist (e.g. Wikipedia and PlanetMath), b...
The increased need for Quality of Service (QoS) in today’s networks has concentrated a lot of research and implementation efforts. Particular interest exists for the exploitatio...
— The trend in Grid computing towards more data intensive applications, accessing more and more relational databases and requiring advanced integration of secondhand and publicly...
Multimediacommunication,with its strong requirementsfor high speed, assured quality, and reliable networking, is stimulating a great research e ort towards the development of real...
Grids are facing the challenge of seamless integration of the grid power into everyday use. One critical component for this integration is responsiveness, the capacity to support o...