As networks and the use of communication within applications continue to grow and find more uses, so too does the demand for more control and manageability of various "system...
Richard E. Schantz, John A. Zinky, David A. Karr, ...
Data replication is a key issue in a Data Grid and can be managed in different ways and at different levels of granularity: for example, at the file level or object level. In the ...
XML, as "the next generation ASCII", can play several roles in a distributed object system; one of the more exciting ones is as the basis for serialized data representat...
This paper presents the design and implementation of a transaction service that complies with the WS-Coordination and WS-AtomicTransaction standards. Such service builds upon XAct...
In this paper, we introduce the combinatorial auction model for resource management in grids. We propose a combinatorial auction-based resource allocation protocol in which a user...