Different types of data skewness can result in load imbalance in the context of parallel joins under the shared nothing architecture. We study one important type of skewness, join ...
Foto N. Afrati, Victor Kyritsis, Paraskevas V. Lek...
The decoupled direct method in three dimensions (DDM-3D) provides an efficient and accurate approach for probing the sensitivity of atmospheric pollutant concentrations to various...
S. L. Napelenok, D. S. Cohan, M. T. Odman, S. Tons...
Security underpins Grids and e-Research. Without a robust, reliable and simple Grid security infrastructure combined with commonly accepted security practices, large portions of th...
Richard O. Sinnott, Jipu Jiang, J. P. Watt, Oluwaf...
Desktop Grids have proved to be a suitable platform for the execution of Bag-of-Tasks applications but, being characterized by a high resource volatility, require the availability ...
Cosimo Anglano, John Brevik, Massimo Canonico, Dan...
Abstract— Software component technologies are being accepted as an adequate solution for handling the complexity of applications. However, existing software component models tend...
Gabriel Antoniu, Hinde-Lilia Bouziane, Mathieu Jan...