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NETWORKING
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Construction of a Proxy-Based Overlay Skeleton Tree for Large-Scale Real-Time Group Communications
Abstract. We consider the problem of constructing a proxy-based overlay skeleton tree (POST) in the backbone service domain of a two-tier overlay multicast infrastructure. Spanning...
Jun Guo, Sanjay Jha
CCGRID
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Harvesting Large-Scale Grids for Software Resources
— Grid infrastructures are in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources and a wide variety of application software. In this conte...
Asterios Katsifodimos, George Pallis, Marios D. Di...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The view from the trenches: organization, power, and technology at two nonprofit homeless outreach centers
Nonprofit social service organizations provide the backbone of social support infrastructure in the U.S. and around the world. As the ecology of information exchange moves evermor...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards
ECIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
An empirical investigation of determinants to buy application services from ASPs
The Application Service Provider (ASP) is a pivotal point in the organization of information systems, since it brings up a new paradigm: “make, buy or rent”. An ASP is a compa...
Vincenzo Morabito
CLUSTER
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
From Metacomputing to Metabusiness Processing
The importance of large-scale electrical business processing is increasing today as recent Internet technologies build on the basic infrastructure. Simply integrating existing tec...
Li-jie Jin, Andrew S. Grimshaw