Rich Internet applications are becoming increasingly distributed, as demonstrated by the popularity of AJAX or Web 2.0 applications such as Facebook, Google Maps, Hotmail and many...
Traditionally, distributed resource management/ scheduling systems for the Grid (e.g. Globus/ GRAM/ Condor-G) have tended to deal with coarsegrained and concrete resource types (e....
Wei Cai, Geoff Coulson, Paul Grace, Gordon S. Blai...
— Mobile handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones are increasingly being used by service providers to deliver application functionality similar to that found in traditional ...
Traditionally, application specific computations have been focusing on numerically intensive data manipulation. Modern communications and DSP applications, such as WWW, interactiv...
Resource heterogeneity offers a new challenge to portability of resource critical applications such as multimedia or interactive applications. Under heterogeneous environments, a ...