The past few years have seen a burst in public interest and widespread use of portable electronic devices featuring both mature and emerging technologies for wireless communication...
Grid Workflows are emerging as practical programming models for solving large e-scientific problems on the Grid. However, it is typically assumed that the workflow components eith...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Mobility is redefining the hardware and software fabric of distributed systems. Wireless communication allows network hosts to participate in a distributed computation while on t...
Finding the right pricing for music downloads is of ample importance to the recording industry and music download service providers. For the recently introduced music downloads, re...