Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...
The ScotlandsPlaces project is an official, permanent website found at www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk. It exhibits a very novel and exciting way of searching across cultural heritage i...
The Globus Toolkit (GT) has been developed since the late 1990s to support the development of service-oriented distributed computing applications and infrastructures. Core GT compo...
Due to the widespread availability of accurate localization technologies, navigation systems are more and more present on mobile devices. These applications usually provide facili...
As Internet services become more popular and pervasive, a critical problem that arises is managing the performance of services under extreme overload. This paper presents a set of...