HARC—the Highly-Available Resource Co-allocator—is an open-source system for reserving multiple resources in a coordinated fashion. HARC can handle different types of resource...
Service Oriented Architectures and Web Services are emerging technologies, which have overall inherited problems and advantages from the component-based approach, but exacerbated ...
This paper presents a novel architecture called the MetaGrid based on Grid computing concepts for resource provisioning for wide-area network-enabled applications. Resource provis...
Emerging distributed technologies aim to provide simple and powerful tools for web services design and implementation. Main vendors provide modern frameworks so that a good coordi...
Content-based image retrieval requires a natural image (e.g, a photo) as query, but the absence of such a query image is usually the reason for a search. An easy way to express the...