Grid software developers and Grid site administrators both require realistic testbeds where they can test applications and middleware before deployment on production infrastructur...
Stephen Childs, Brian A. Coghlan, Jason McCandless
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
As software becomes increasingly complex and difficult to analyze, it is more and more common for developers to use high-level, type-safe, object-oriented (OO) programming langua...