Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
Today’s autonomous and heterogeneous information systems have an increasing necessity of exchanging data. As widely known, middleware systems have been successfully adopted as i...
Scientific applications require sophisticated data management capabilities. We present the design and implementation of a Data Replication Service (DRS), one of a planned set of h...
Ann L. Chervenak, Robert Schuler, Carl Kesselman, ...
Once the decision to outsource an activity has been made, managers are faced with issues related to the management of the relationship with their service providers. A critical ele...
Benoit Aubert, Jean-Francois Houde, Michel Patry, ...
The widespread diffusion of mobile computing along with the integration of telecommunication systems and the Internet enables a scenario where the promise of ubiquitous computing ...
Dario Bottazzi, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari