A basic problem in the management of web servers is capacity planning: you want enough capacity to be able to serve peak loads, but not too much so as to avoid excessive costs. It...
Prolog is an excellent tool for representing and manipulating data written in formal languages as well as natural language. Its safe semantics and automatic memory management make...
Jan Wielemaker, Zhisheng Huang, Lourens van der Me...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems seek to provide sharing of computational resources, which may be duplicated or versioned over several peers. Duplicate resources (i.e. replicas) are the...
Deise de Brum Saccol, Nina Edelweiss, Renata de Ma...
A staggering number of multimedia applications are being introduced every day. Yet, the inordinate delays encountered in retrieving multimedia documents make it difficult to use t...
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...