— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
Abstract. Information Services are fundamental blocks of the Grid infrastructure. They are responsible for collecting and distributing information about resource availability and s...
Diego Puppin, Stefano Moncelli, Ranieri Baraglia, ...
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
Given a service request such as scheduling an appointment or purchasing a product, it is possible that the invocation of the service results in too many solutions that all satisfy ...
Computational Grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for Internet-based parallel and distributed computing. They enable the sharing, exchange, discovery, and aggregation of re...