Much of the software engineering literature begins with an admonition that what practitioners are doing isn't enough--that the state-of-the-practice is creating bad software. ...
The problem of scheduling groups of jobs on a single machine under the group technology assumption is studied. Jobs of the same group are processed contiguously and a sequence ind...
T. C. Edwin Cheng, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, C. T. Ng, ...
Grid services provide an important abstract layer on top of heterogeneous components (hardware and software) that take part into a grid environment. We are developing a data grid s...
A simple programmable Java platform-independent distributed computation system has been developed to exploit the free resources on computers linked together by a network. It is a ...
Andrew J. Page, Thomas M. Keane, Richard Allen, Th...
Kahn Process Networks is an appealing model of computation for programming and mapping applications onto multi-processor platforms. Autonomous processes communicate through unboun...