As the platform for wide-area distributed applications, the middleware architecture should support adaptability, scalability, mobility, reliability and security. However, current ...
The unprecedented scale, heterogeneity, and varied usage patterns of grids pose significant technical challenges to any underlying file system that will support them. While grid...
Brian S. White, Andrew S. Grimshaw, Anh Nguyen-Tuo...
This paper focuses on an approach to modeling shapes through the use of evolutionary optimization or genetic algorithms for functionally represented geometric objects. This repres...
Abstract. In this paper we suggest a strategy to design job scheduling systems. To this end, we first split a scheduling system into three components: Scheduling policy, objective ...
This paper argues for the importance of home-related research on technology. Several important differences between researching homes and researching workplaces are described, and s...