QoS (Quality of Service) parameters play a key role in selecting Grid resources and optimizing resources usage efficiently. Although many works have focused on using QoS metrics,...
Hong Linh Truong, Robert Samborski, Thomas Fahring...
Scientific workflows are a powerful programming technique for specifying complex computations using a number of otherwise independent components. When used in a Grid environment, ...
Bioinformatics algorithms such as sequence alignment methods based on profile-HMM (Hidden Markov Model) are popular but CPU-intensive. If large amounts of data are processed, a s...
Heinz Stockinger, Marco Pagni, Lorenzo Cerutti, La...
The core goal of resource management is to establish a mutual agreement between a resource producer and a resource consumer by which the provider agrees to supply a capability tha...
Behnaz Pourebrahimi, Koen Bertels, G. M. Kandru, S...
Facial composites are typically constructed by witnesses to crime by describing a suspect's face and then selecting facial features from a kit of parts. Unfortunately, when p...
Charlie D. Frowd, Vicki Bruce, Alex H. McIntyre, P...