Abstract— Recent advances in genomic research and biotechnology have led to an increased level of technological sophistication in today’s biology laboratories. With the promisi...
Current computing environments are becoming increasingly complex in nature and exhibit unpredictable workloads. These environments create challenges to the design of systems that c...
The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) has emerged as a standard for specifying and executing processes. It is supported by vendors such as IBM and Microso...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M...
Resource sharing within grid collaborations usually implies specific sharing mechanisms at participating sites. Challenging policy issues can arise in such scenarios that integrate...
Due to the large success of wireless networks and portable devices, the pervasive computing paradigm is becoming a reality. One of the most challenging objectives to be achieved in...
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Nikolaos Georgantas, Valé...