In typical single-link 802.11 ad-hoc networks, devices often move from one network to the next, forming transitory associations without a fixed support infrastructure. The state i...
Resource and service discovery, data transfer or replica management, are some examples of basic operations of a grid which can gain efficiency by using multicast transmission tech...
In order to guarantee certain levels of QoS, a Web application needs to adapt itself to different execution contexts. However, because of the lack of coordination support in Web p...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Framework based application development is increasingly being adopted by software organizations. Frameworks provide reuse of both software design and code, and supply more trustab...
Maria Istela Cagnin, Rosana T. V. Braga, Rosangela...