Abstract--If we are to deploy sensor applications in a realistic business context, we must provide innovative middleware services to control and enforce required system behavior; i...
The increasing numbers of cores, shared caches and memory nodes within machines introduces a complex hardware topology. High-performance computing applications now have to carefull...
Scheduling large amounts of tasks in distributed computing platforms composed of millions of nodes is a challenging goal, even more in a fully decentralized way and with low overhe...
Successful implementation of information technology (IT)-enabled strategy rests on the performance of IT professionals. Consequently, the development and retention of this "I...
The main objective of the IBM Grand Central Station (GCS) is to gather information of virtually any type of formats (text, data, image, graphics, audio, video) from the cyberspace...