: New information and communication technologies within the Administration give rise to a series of important challenges: to select and use the various telematic and computer-relat...
1 COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) devices are capable of executing powerful, distributed algorithms. Very large, adaptive systems can be created by simply integrating these devices...
Sanjai Narain, Ravichander Vaidyanathan, Stanley M...
The Internet is rapidly changing from a set of wires and switches that carry packets into a sophisticated infrastructure that delivers a set of complex value-added services to end...
Prashant R. Chandra, Allan Fisher, Corey Kosak, T....
We consider a virtual computing environment that provides computational resources on demand to users with multiattribute task descriptions that include a valuation, resource (CPU)...
Being subscribed to a newspaper, readers expect some basic things: receiving their paper in their mailbox early in the morning, being able to read it privately when and where they...