Scientific workflows are a powerful programming technique for specifying complex computations using a number of otherwise independent components. When used in a Grid environment, ...
As the size of distributed systems keeps growing, the peer to peer communication paradigm has been identified as the key to scalability. Peer to peer overlay networks are charact...
Erwan Le Merrer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Laurent Mas...
Large amount of monitoring data can be collected from distributed systems as the observables to analyze system behaviors. However, without reasonable models to characterize systems...
Future database application systems will be designed as Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) like SAP’s NetWeaver instead of monolithic software systems such as SAP’s R/3. Th...
Stefan Seltzsam, Daniel Gmach, Stefan Krompass, Al...
— We investigate a technique that uses an embedded network deployed pervasively throughout an environment to aid robots in navigation. First, we show that the path computed by th...
Keith J. O'Hara, Victor Bigio, Shaun Whitt, Daniel...