With the evolving availability of wireless communication servicesand of affordable mobile devices such as notebooks or Personal Digital Assistants, mobile computing is becoming wid...
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...
This paper studies the QoS-aware replica placement problem. Although there has been much work on replica placement problem, most of them concerns average system performance and ign...
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
Grids allow large scale resource-sharing across different administrative domains. Those diverse resources are likely to join or quit the Grid at any moment or possibly to break dow...
Francesc Guim, Ivan Rodero, M. Tomas, Julita Corba...