In an open distributed system, computational resources are peer-owned, and distributed over time and space. The fact that these resources can dynamically join or leave the system (...
Abstract. In this paper we compare verb synonym information contained in four public-available lexical-semantic resources for Portuguese: TeP, PAPEL, Wiktionary and OpenThesaurusPT...
Unplanned system outages have a negative impact on company revenues and image. While the last decades have seen a lot of efforts from industry and academia to avoid them, they stil...
Javier Alonso, Jordi Torres, Josep Lluis Berral, R...
Abstract--The provision of Quality of Service in Grid environments is still an open issue that needs attention from the research community. One way of contributing to the provision...
We have begun a project to automatically create the lexico-syntactic resources for a microplanner as a side-effect of running a domain-specific language understanding system. The ...
Abstract. The Digital Humanities Observatory was created to support the longterm management of electronic cultural heritage resources for the digital humanities in Ireland. However...
In the design of hard real-time systems, the feasibility of the task set is one of the primary concerns. However, in embedded systems with scarce resources, optimizing resource us...
This paper introduces several Business Rules for maximising the revenue of Providers in Cloud Computing Markets. These rules apply in both negotiation and execution time, and enfor...
Resource management and scheduling plays a crucial role in achieving high utilization of resources in grid computing environments. Due to heterogeneity of resources, scheduling an...
If we expect the computer to vanish in the background, to make pervasive computing a reality, first we must be able to provide the illusion that all the user’s computers, devic...
Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola, Enrique...