It is now common to encounter communities engaged in the collaborative analysis and transformation of large quantities of data over extended time periods. We argue that these comm...
We propose a biologically inspired and fully-decentralized approach to the organization of computation that is based on the autonomous scheduling of strongly mobile agents on a pe...
Arjav J. Chakravarti, Gerald Baumgartner, Mario La...
To an unappreciated degree, research both in operating systems andtheirprogramminglanguageshasbeen severely hampered by the lack of cleanly reusable code providing mundanelow-leve...
Bryan Ford, Kevin Van Maren, Jay Lepreau, Stephen ...
Many middleware platforms use computational reflection to support adaptive functionality. Most approaches intertwine the activity of observing behavior (introspection) with the a...
Eric P. Kasten, Philip K. McKinley, Seyed Masoud S...
The Network Weather Service NWS is a distributed resource monitoring and utilization prediction system, employed as an aid to scheduling jobs in a metacomputing environment 9, 1...
Robert E. Busby Jr., Mitchell L. Neilsen, Daniel A...