Grid computing offers a promising approach to solving challenging computational problems in an environment consisting of a large number of easily accessible resources. In this pape...
Forecasting workflow activity durations is of great importance to support satisfactory QoS in workflow systems. Traditionally, a workflow system is often designed to facilitate the...
One of the main objectives in engineering departments of large industries is the implementation of integrated information systems to manage their projects' life cycle. EnViro...
Ismael H. F. dos Santos, Alberto Barbosa Raposo, L...
In previous work [1], we introduced a distributed middleware infrastructure for managing physicallybounded, standalone pervasive computing environments, which we refer to as Activ...
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...