Two important architectural choices underlie the success of the Web: numerous, independently operated servers speak a common protocol, and a single type of client--the Web browser...
Service discovery has been recognised as an important aspect of service oriented computing. This is even more the case when developing service centric systems in which software sy...
With the widespread of Web Services (WS), more deployed services are being registered into a services registry, consequently giving rise to a series of problems. A conspicuous one...
One of the guiding principles of the Grid is local (site) autonomy. Resource owners maintain control over their resources even when those resources are part of a larger Grid. In o...
Jun Feng, Lingling Cui, Glenn S. Wasson, Marty Hum...
We consider a distributed server system model and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our model each host processes tasks in First-Come-First-Serve ord...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Mark Crovella, Cristina D. Mur...