Coordinating the activities of distributed autonomous entities challenges traditional approaches to distributed coordination and calls for new paradigms and supporting middleware....
—The ever increasing scale and complexity of large computational systems ask for sophisticated management tools, paving the way toward Autonomic Computing. A first step toward A...
Electronic Commerce is expanding from the simple notion of Electronic Store to the notion of Virtual Enterprises (VE) where existing enterprises dynamically form temporary allianc...
Panos K. Chrysanthis, Sujata Banerjee, Shi-Kuo Cha...
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are becoming the prevalent approach for realizing modern services and systems. SOA offers superior support for autonomy (decoupling) and heter...
William Vambenepe, Carol Thompson, Vanish Talwar, ...
As users increasingly require better quality of service from Grids, resource management and scheduling mechanisms have to evolve in order to satisfy competing demands on limited r...