evel of abstraction, we can represent a workflow as a directed graph with operators (or tasks) at the vertices (see Figure 1). Each operator takes inputs from data sources or from ...
Industrial research firms such as Gartner and IDC are predicting an explosion in the number of online services in the coming years. Virtualization technologies could play an impor...
Tingxi Tan, Rob Simmonds, Bradley Arlt, Martin F. ...
Purpose – This paper aims to look at a research project – StarPlane –a national dynamic photonic network controlled by grid applications. Design/methodology/approach – The...
Paola Grosso, Li Xu, Jan-Philip Velders, Cees de L...
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 ...
DEVS is a Modeling and Simulation formalism that has been used to study the dynamics of discrete event systems. Cell-DEVS is a DEVS-based formalism that defines the cell space as ...