— Computer supported collaborative applications on overlay networks are gaining popularity among users who are geographically dispersed. Examples of these kinds of applications i...
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—Cloud Computing, born in the e-business context, and GRID computing, originated in the e-science context, are two different but similar paradigms for managing large sets of dist...
Cloud computing offers new approaches for scientific computing that leverage the major commercial hardware and software investment in this area. Closely coupled applications are s...
Real-time applications continue to increase in importance as they are employed in various critical areas, such as command and control systems. These applications have traditionall...
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The modeling of computer systems, particularly distributed systems, is presented with an emphasis on the system characteristics that are important to the model and some general me...