Information management applications exhibit a wide range of query performance and result freshness goals. Some applications, such as web search, require interactive performance, b...
Kimberly Keeton, Charles B. Morrey III, Craig A. N...
Many authors recognize the limitations of hierarchical Grid scheduling in scalable environments, and proposed peer-to-peer solutions to this problem. However, most peerto-peer gri...
In a wireless communication network different users share a common resource. An objective of radio resource management is to assign the resources in an effective way between the us...
The progressive processing model allows a system to trade off resource consumption against the quality of the outcome by mapping each activity to a graph of potential solution met...
This paper describes a method for controlling the behavior of mobile agent-system entities through the allocation of privileges. Privileges refer to policy rules that govern the a...