— Applications are faced with several network-related problems on current grids: heterogeneous networks, firewalls, NAT, private IP addresses, non-routed networks, performance p...
This paper presents an infrastructure for developing problem-based pervasive learning environments. Building such environments necessitates having many autonomous components deali...
Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
Abstract. The modularity of Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) allows to establish complex distributed systems comprising e.g., services, clients, brokers, and workflow engines. ...
Parallel NFS (pNFS) is touted as an emergent standard protocol for parallel I/O access in various storage environments. Several pNFS prototypes have been implemented for initial v...