The common vision of pervasive computing environments requires a very large range of devices and software components to interoperate seamlessly. From the assumption that these dev...
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...
— EGEE, along with its sister project LCG, manages the world’s largest Grid production infrastructure which is spreading nowadays over 260 sites in more than 40 countries. Just...
Abstract. If quality of service could be provided at the transport or the application layer, then it might be deployed simply by software upgrades, instead of requiring a complete ...
Global public computing platforms, such as PlanetLab, grid computing systems, and XenoServers, require facilities for managing trust to allow their participants to interact effect...