These last years, the evolution of nomadic terminals and mobile networks has yield to the development of the ubiquitous computing. In this context, actual query evaluation and opt...
Motivated by scheduling in cellular wireless networks and resource allocation in computer systems, we study a service facility with two classes of users having heterogeneous servi...
The unprecedented scale, heterogeneity, and varied usage patterns of grids pose significant technical challenges to any underlying file system that will support them. While grid...
Brian S. White, Andrew S. Grimshaw, Anh Nguyen-Tuo...
Customizing architectures for particular applications is a promising approach to yield highly energy-efficient designs for embedded systems. This work explores the benefits of arc...
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of hetero...