This paper describes issues in the design of IT-centric trouble-ticketing applications. Two prototypes are presented. The first introduces a user-centric, webaccessible thick clie...
The World Wide Web has transformed itself in the last few years from a simple state-less multimedia platform to a global distributed processing environment. As Web computing gains...
Abstract. This paper describes SCALEA-G, a unified monitoring and performance analysis system for the Grid. SCALEA-G is implemented as a set of grid services based on the Open Grid...
We consider the use of a database cluster for Application Service Provider (ASP). In the ASP context, applications and databases can be update-intensive and must remain autonomous....
For a grid middleware to perform resource allocation, prediction models are needed, which can determine how long an application will take for completion on a particular platform o...