There is considerable interest in programs that can migrate from one host to another and execute. Mobile programs are appealing because they support efficient utilization of networ...
System administrators regularly use the top utility for understanding the resource consumption of the processes running on UNIX computers. Top provides an accurate and real-time d...
The centralised management of distributed computing infrastructures presents a number of considerable challenges, not least of which is the effective monitoring of physical resour...
Telemedicine is a mean of facilitating the distribution of human resources and professional competences. It can speed up diagnosis and therapeutic care delivery and allow peripher...
Resource management is a precondition to build reliable, extensible middleware and to host potentially untrusted user components. Resource accounting allows to charge users for the...