Although it is increasingly difficult for large scientific programs to attain a significant fraction of peak performance on systems based on microprocessors with substantial instr...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, Gabriel ...
Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...
Abstract. Grid technology is widely emerging as a solution for wide-spread applicability of computerized analysis and processing procedures in biomedical sciences. In this paper we...
Rather than use a shared key directly to cryptographically process (e.g. encrypt or authenticate) data one can use it as a master key to derive subkeys, and use the subkeys for the...
The process of pair partnership formation is an important infrastructure for many plausible MAS applications. Each agent evaluates potential partner agents, where each potential m...