Challenging usage policy issues can arise within virtual organizations (VOs) that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions. Participants may wi...
The dramatic growth of computer networks creates both an opportunity and a daunting distributed computing problem for users seeking to build applications that can configure themse...
Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse, James Kauf...
Adaptive load distribution is necessary for parallel applications to co-exist e ectively with other jobs in a network of shared, heterogeneous workstations. We present three metho...
Jeremy Casas, Ravi B. Konuru, Steve W. Otto, Rober...
The current World Wide Web is essentially a network of documents, a continuously evolving information universe. But the potential of internetworking goes far beyond information ac...
Grid technology has been widely used for large-scale computational problems, but it also provides a framework for running a big number of smallsized processes. Moreover, these proc...