Abstract. Despite significant progress in the development of Grid infrastructure, the provisioning of a customized and controllable remote execution environment remains an open iss...
Katarzyna Keahey, Ian T. Foster, Timothy Freeman, ...
Though the service of shared virtual worlds is an active area of research, little effort has been made to optimize such systems for urban world spaces. Tracking the motion, action...
In large-scale, distributed software systems, an important management undertaking concerns the creation and runtime modification of application instances. This short paper propose...
Previous work has found that (a) when software is developed collaboratively, concurrent accesses to related pieces of code are made, and (b) when these accesses are coordinated asy...
The distributed nature of peer-to-peer networks offers a solid ground for the deployment of environments where multiple agents, managing several resources, can cooperate in pursuin...