Grid computing is about allocating distributed collections of resources including computers, storage systems, networks and instruments to form a coherent system devoted to a “vir...
Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Marcus Christie, Liang ...
The university campus is an interesting application environment for the ubiquitous computing paradigm: a large number of users share a substantial amount of their information need...
Load balancing in a cluster system has been investigated extensively, mainly focusing on the effective usage of global CPU and memory resources. However, if a significant portion ...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
Safe language technology can be used for protection within a single address space. This protection is enforced by the language’s type system, which ensures that references to obj...
Thorsten von Eicken, Chi-Chao Chang, Grzegorz Czaj...
—A fundamental challenge of managing mutable data replication in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system is how to efficiently maintain consistency under various sharing patterns with heter...