Abstract. The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing...
Searching for Web service access points is no longer attached to service registries as Web search engines have become a new major source for discovering Web services. In this work...
The Grid is realizing the vision of providing computation as utility: computation jobs can be scheduled on-demand in Grid hosts based on available computation capacity. In this pa...
Dynamic loading of code is needed when rarely used code should be loaded on demand or when the code to be loaded is not known in advance. In distributed systems it can also be used...
A widely used computational model for constructing fault-tolerant distributed applications employs atomic transactions for controlling operations on persistent objects. There has ...