Critical infrastructures display many of the characteristic properties of complex systems. They exhibit infrequent large failures events that often obey a power law distribution i...
Benjamin A. Carreras, David E. Newman, Paul Gradne...
In this paper, we present a practical experiment of building a service-oriented system upon current web services technologies and bioinformatics middleware. The system allows scie...
Xiaorong Xiang, Gregory R. Madey, Jeanne Romero-Se...
This study examines the effect of Indonesia’s telecommunications policy on Internet access and the digital divide. The study finds that current government policy had minimal imp...
Desktop grids combine Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing techniques to improve the robustness, reliability and scalability of job execution infrastructures. However, efficiently mat...
Jik-Soo Kim, Peter J. Keleher, Michael A. Marsh, B...
Large-scale donation-based distributed infrastructures need to cope with the inherent unreliability of participant nodes. A widely-used work scheduling technique in such environme...
Krishnaveni Budati, Jason D. Sonnek, Abhishek Chan...