—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
: Ground target surveillance is getting a more and more important task, for civil as for military applications. Ground targets may be bound to infrastructural constraints, like veh...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically acquiring context models from data. Context and human behavior are represented using a state model, called situation model. This ...
James L. Crowley, Oliver Brdiczka, Patrick Reignie...
Task scheduling is an integrated component of computing. With the emergence of grid and ubiquitous computing, newer challenges have arisen in task scheduling. Unlike traditional p...
In this paper, we present algorithms for Grid resource provisioning that employ agreement-based resource management. These algorithms allow userlevel resource allocation and sched...