Intelligent connected devices become a more vital part of our lives. In contrast to prior years, today embedded systems and devices are loosely coupled and cooperate with each oth...
There is an increasing interest in integrating Javabased, and in particular Jini systems, with the emerging Grid infrastructures. In this paper we explore various ways of integrat...
Developers and users of high-performance distributed systems often observe performance problems such as unexpectedly low throughput or high latency. Determining the source of the ...
Dan Gunter, Brian Tierney, Keith R. Jackson, Jason...
This paper focuses on the problems of coordinating the movements of a cooperative team in an environment, and proposes an approach that takes inspiration from the laws of physics....
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard provides a uniform Application Programmers Interface (API) that abstracts the underlying hardware from the parallel applications. Rece...