Abstract— The execution environments For scientific applications have evolved significantly over the years. Vector and parallel architectures have provided significantly faste...
We consider a system of compute and storage resources geographically distributed over a large number of locations connected via a wide-area network. By distributing the resources,...
Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello Gaglianello, Vijay...
Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that endpoints treat the network as a black box. An endpoint injects a packet with a destination address and the netwo...
Paolo Costa, Thomas Zahn, Antony I. T. Rowstron, G...
Abstract. Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is the user interface metaphor that allows to naturally communicate information during human-computer interaction in synergic modality...
Portlets strive to play at the front end the same role that Web services currently enjoy at the back end, namely, enablers of application assembly through reusable services. Howev...