This paper describes the architecture of a distributed workflow management system in a dynamic environment. The system features autonomous agent components that can adapt to both s...
Maryam Purvis, Martin K. Purvis, Azhar Haidar, Bas...
— Peer-to-peer computing, the harnessing of idle compute cycles throughout the Internet, offers exciting new research challenges in the converging domains of networking and distr...
Virginia Mary Lo, Daniel Zappala, Dayi Zhou, Yuhon...
The construction and maintenance of data warehouses (views) in large-scale environments composed of numerous distributed and evolving information sources (ISs) such as the WWW has ...
Locating resources of interest in a large resourceintensive environment is a challenging problem. In this paper we present research on addressing this problem through the developm...
Mehmet S. Aktas, Marlon E. Pierce, Geoffrey Fox, D...
Abstract Utility Data Center (UDC) provides a exible, coste ective infrastructure to support the hosting of applications for Internet services. In order to enable the design of a \...