The Application Service Provider (ASP) is a pivotal point in the organization of information systems, since it brings up a new paradigm: “make, buy or rent”. An ASP is a compa...
ions and concepts that let applications access and share resources and services across distributed, wide area networks, while providing common security semantics, distributed resou...
Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, St...
This paper envisions a distributed network storage service with Quality-ofService (QoS) guarantees, and describes its architecture and key mechanisms. When fully realized, this se...
Desktop Grids are rapidly gaining popularity as a costeffective computing platform for the execution of applications with extensive computing needs. As opposed to grids and cluste...
There are many challenges in devising solutions for online content processing of live networked multimedia sessions. These include content analysis under uncertainty (evidence of ...