Does usability affect long term user engagement in computer games, or are other factors more influential? This paper explores this issue, discussing an evaluation study that measu...
In federated Data Grids, individual institutions share their data sets within a community to enable collaborative data analysis. Data access needs to be provided in a scalable fas...
Tobias Scholl, Richard Kuntschke, Angelika Reiser,...
Replication is a technique commonly used to increase the availability of services in distributed systems, including grid and web services. While replication is relatively easy for...
Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Matti A. Hiltunen,...
Large distributed Grid systems pose new challenges in job scheduling due to complex workload characteristics and system characteristics. Due to the numerous parameters that must b...
Abstract. Next-generation Grid applications will be highly heterogeneous in nature, will run on many types of computer and device, will operate within and across many heterogeneous...
Paul Grace, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Barry ...