Effective task scheduling and deployment is hard to achieve in a Grid environment, where computing resources are heterogamous and shared between local and Grid users without a cen...
Using certificates for distributed authorizations in computer network systems has been discussed in the literature. However real implementations of the concept are rarely seen. In...
Satisfaction surveys are an important measurement tool in fields such as market research or human resources management. Serious studies consist of numerous questions and contain a...
Abstract— Cycle-harvesting software on commodity computers is available from a number of companies and a significant part of the Grid computing landscape. However, creating comm...
Providing QoS guarantees to the applications in a multi-institutional Grid is a challenging task. Although advance reservations (ARs) can provide QoS guarantees for the applicatio...