Metadata is needed to facilitate data sharing among geospatial information communities. Geographic Metadata Standards are available but tend to be general and complex in nature an...
Grid computing involves the transparent sharing of computational resources of many types by users across large geographic distances. The altruistic nature of many current grid reso...
Daniel C. Vanderster, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Randa...
Online peer production systems have enabled people to coactively create, share, classify, and rate content on an unprecedented scale. This paper describes strong macroscopic regul...
In distributed real-time systems, an application is often modeled as a set of real-time transactions, where each transaction is a chain of precedence-constrained tasks. Each task ...
Jackal is a fine-grained distributed shared memory implementation of the Java programming language. It aims to implement Java’s memory model and allows multithreaded Java progr...
Jun Pang, Wan Fokkink, Rutger F. H. Hofman, Ronald...