The expansion of the WWW and the growth of data sources lead to the proliferation of heterogeneous data (texts, images, videos, sounds and relational views). We call these data ”...
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
Abstract-- Many peer-to-peer-based virtual environment (P2PVE) solutions have been proposed recently to improve the scalability of distributed virtual environment (VE) systems. By ...
In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...
: Matchmaking between offers and requests is an essential mechanism in electronic market places. Description Logics have been proposed as a appropriate framework for representing o...