Since a number of years agent technology is considered one of the most innovative technologies for the development of distributed software systems. While not yet a mainstream appr...
Fabio Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire, Agostino Poggi,...
Computational grids have not scaled effectively due to administrative hurdles to resource and user participation. Most production grids are essentially multi-site supercomputer ce...
Weishuai Yang, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Michael J. Le...
Checkpoint and Recovery (CPR) systems have many uses in high-performance computing. Because of this, many developers have implemented it, by hand, into their applications. One of ...
Greg Bronevetsky, Rohit Fernandes, Daniel Marques,...
We present the case study of a complex, mixed-initiative scheduling system to illustrate Work-Centered Design (WCD), a new approach for the design of information systems. WCD is b...
Keith A. Butler, Jiajie Zhang, Chris Esposito, Ali...
Peer-to-peer sharing systems are becoming increasingly popular and an exciting new class of innovative, internet-based data management systems. In these systems, users contribute ...
Peter Triantafillou, Chryssani Xiruhaki, Manolis K...