The efficiency of service discovery is critical in the development of fully decentralized middleware intended to manage large scale computational grids. This demand influenced t...
A Replica Location Service (RLS) allows registration and discovery of data replicas. In earlier work, we proposed an RLS framework and described the performance and scalability of...
The potential for faults in distributed computing systems is a significant complicating factor for application developers. While a variety of techniques exist for detecting and co...
Paul Stelling, Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Crai...
In this paper, we outline the design of a recommendation system (MyPYTHIA) implemented as a web portal. MyPYTHIA's design objectives include evaluating the quality and perfor...
Elias N. Houstis, Ann Christine Catlin, Nitesh Dha...
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...