The concept of multimedia metacomputing involves the formation of a large scale loosely coupled multiprocessing environment capable of performing complex transformations on media ...
GPUs have recently evolved into very fast parallel co-processors capable of executing general purpose computations extremely efficiently. At the same time, multi-core CPUs evolutio...
George Teodoro, Rafael Sachetto Oliveira, Olcay Se...
The performance of server-side applications is becoming increasingly important as more applications exploit the Web application model. Extensive work has been done to improve the ...
Toyotaro Suzumura, Michiaki Tatsubori, Scott Trent...
Growth in the complexity of computing systems, in the dynamism of the environments they operate in, and the need for timely adaptations as conditions change, now pose significant...
Web service processes currently lack monitoring and dynamic (runtime) adaptation mechanisms. In highly dynamic processes, services frequently need to be exchanged due to a variety...