— To address the rapid growth of the Internet, modern Web search engines have to adopt distributed organizations, where the collection of indexed documents is partitioned among s...
Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri, Raffaele Perego,...
Synchronization is widely considered as an important service in distributed systems which may simplify protocol design. Phase clock is a general synchronization tool that provides ...
A new class of models, formalisms and mechanisms has recently evolved for describing concurrent and distributed computations based on the concept of “coordination”. The purpos...
Increasing scale, dynamism, and complexity of hybrid grids make traditional grid resource scheduling approaches difficult. In such grids, where resource volatility and dynamism is...
To ensure fair and secure communication in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), the applications running in these networks must be regulated by proper communication policies. However,...