Grid technologies have been developed in response to an increase in demand for computing applications designed to yield the benefits from collaboration, data sharing and sophistic...
Anastasios Gounaris, Norman W. Paton, Rizos Sakell...
Open content communities such as wikis derive their value from the work done by users. However, a key challenge is to elicit work that is sufficient and focused where needed. We ...
One of the challenges in large scale distributed computing is to utilize the thousands of idle personal computers. In this paper, we present a system that enables users to e ortles...
Building open distributed systems is an even more challenging task than building distributed systems, as their components are loosely synchronised, can move, become disconnected, ...
A key observation is that the invariants in database management determine the mapping steps of the supporting architecture. Referring to the multi-layered architecture of record-or...