Many distributed applications can make use of large background transfers ? transfers of data that humans are not waiting for ? to improve availability, reliability, latency or con...
People with chronic health problems use online resources to understand and manage their condition, but many such resources can present competing and confusing viewpoints. We surve...
Jennifer Mankoff, Kateryna Kuksenok, Sara B. Kiesl...
This paper describes how Condor-pools could be joined together to form a large computational cluster-grid. In the architecture Jini provides the infrastructure for resource lookup,...
This paper describes XPeer, a zero-administration system for sharing and querying XML data. The system allows users to share XML data without significant human intervention, and t...
Carlo Sartiani, Paolo Manghi, Giorgio Ghelli, Giov...
As Internet services become more popular and pervasive, a critical problem that arises is managing the performance of services under extreme overload. This paper presents a set of...