—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
Abstract. Many parallel scienti c applications have dynamic and irregular computational structure. However, most such applications exhibit persistence of computational load and com...
Milind A. Bhandarkar, Robert Brunner, Laxmikant V....
Viral marketing takes advantage of networks of influence among customers to inexpensively achieve large changes in behavior. Our research seeks to put it on a firmer footing by mi...
Organizations depend on regular meetings to carry out their everyday tasks. When carried out successfully, meetings offer a common medium for participants to exchange ideas and mak...
Catholijn M. Jonker, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur, ...
The resource availability in Grids is generally unpredictable due to the autonomous and shared nature of the Grid resources and stochastic nature of the workload resulting in a be...