Grids currently serve as platforms for numerous scientific as well as business applications that generate and access vast amounts of data. In this paper, we address the need for e...
Many graphs used in real-world applications consist of nodes belonging to more than one category. We call such graph "multiplecategory graphs". Social networks are typic...
Takayuki Itoh, Chris Muelder, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jun Ses...
This paper has investigated the issue of virtual wealth and its realization in both real and virtual worlds, and argued that the realization of virtual wealth is necessary and pos...
Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...
MapReduce has recently gained a lot of attention as a parallel programming model for scalable data-intensive business and scientific analysis. In order to benefit from this powerf...