Object-oriented technologies are frequently used to design and implement distributed applications. Object replication is a well-established approach to increase the dependability f...
Workflow management systems guide and monitor tasks performed by humans and computers. The workflow specifications are usually expressed in special purpose (graphical) formalisms....
Jan Martin Jansen, Rinus Plasmeijer, Pieter W. M. ...
Abstract-- High performance computing platforms like Clusters, Grid and Desktop Grids are becoming larger and subject to more frequent failures. MPI is one of the most used message...
Solving optimization problems with multiple (often conflicting) objectives is, generally, a very difficult goal. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) were initially extended and applied ...
Several real world applications involve solving combinatorial optimization problems. Commonly, existing heuristic approaches are designed to address specific difficulties of the u...