Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
Hot spots are a major obstacle to achieving scalability in the Internet. At the application layer, hot spots are usually caused by either (a) high demand for some data or (b) high...
Samrat Bhattacharjee, William C. Cheng, Cheng-Fu C...
The capability to easily find useful services (software applications, software components, scientific computations) becomes increasingly critical in several fields. Current approa...
Juan Carlos Corrales, Daniela Grigori, Mokrane Bou...
Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an `on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resource...
Environmental databases store a wide variety of data from heterogeneous sources which are described with domain-specific terminologies and refer to distinct locations. In order to ...