Grid is a rapidly growing new technology that will provide easy access to huge amounts of computer resources, both hardware and software. As these resources become available soon,...
One of the first motivations of using grids comes from applications managing large data sets in field such as high energy physics or life sciences. To improve the global throughput...
We propose a biologically inspired and fully-decentralized approach to the organization of computation that is based on the autonomous scheduling of strongly mobile agents on a pe...
Arjav J. Chakravarti, Gerald Baumgartner, Mario La...
In recent years different institutions have launched several telemedicine projects which aimed to encourage the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. The creation of a Virtual Euro-Medit...
Georgi Graschew, Theo A. Roelofs, Stefan Rakowsky,...
In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...