While virtual worlds have evolved to provide a good medium for social communication, they are very primitive in their social and affective communication design. The social communic...
—Quality-of-service (QoS) management often requires a continuous monitoring service to provide updated information about different hosts and network links in the managed system. ...
Background: A fundamental goal of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) "Roadmap" is to strengthen Translational Research, defined as the movement of discoveries i...
Alan Ruttenberg, Tim Clark, William Bug, Matthias ...
Software failures in server applications are a significant problem for preserving system availability. We present ASSURE, a system that introduces rescue points that recover softw...
Stelios Sidiroglou, Oren Laadan, Carlos Perez, Nic...
The GridBASE framework for database-driven grid computing is presented. The design and a prototype implementation of the framework is discussed. Industry-strength database technol...