In desktop grids the use of off-the-shelf shared components makes the use of dedicated resources economically nonviable and increases the complexity of design of efficient storag...
Chreston Miller, Patrick Butler, Ankur Shah, Ali R...
Managing usage service level agreements (USLAs) within environments that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions is a challenging problem. Mai...
This paper presents a case study concerning the challenges and requirements posed by next generation language resources, realized as an overall model of open, distributed and coll...
Federico Calzolari, Eva Sassolini, Manuela Sassi, ...
It is now common to encounter communities engaged in the collaborative analysis and transformation of large quantities of data over extended time periods. We argue that these comm...
From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...