To support multimedia applications in mobile environments, it will be necessary for applications to be aware of the underlying environmental conditions, and also to be able to ada...
Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Anders Andersen, L...
A fine-grain parallel program is one in which processes are typically small, ranging from a few to a few hundred instructions. Fine-grain parallelism arises naturally in many situ...
Vincent W. Freeh, David K. Lowenthal, Gregory R. A...
Deployment of distributed applications on large systems, and especially on grid infrastructures, becomes a more and more complex task. Grid users spend a lot of time to prepare, in...
Traditionally, workflow management systems aim at alleviating people's burden of coordinating repetitive business procedures, i.e., they coordinate people. Web service orchest...
SCA (Service Component Architecture) is an OASIS standard for describing service-oriented middleware architectures. In particular, SCA promotes a disciplined way for designing dis...