In recent years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the use of data-centric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and vari...
Abstract. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application deployment and monitoring in large-scale, distributed environments, few tools provide a unified framewor...
Jeannie R. Albrecht, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. S...
Deployment of shared storage systems is increasing with rapid adoption of virtualization technologies to provide isolation, better management and high utilization of resources. Qu...
Grid computing offers a promising approach to solving challenging computational problems in an environment consisting of a large number of easily accessible resources. In this pape...
Topology-preserving geometric deformable models (TGDMs) are used to segment objects that have a known topology. Their accuracy is inherently limited, however, by the resolution of...