Sciweavers

3276 search results - page 176 / 656
» Data Management for Pervasive Computing
Sort
View
SC
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Lessons learned from a year's worth of benchmarks of large data clouds
In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
Yunhong Gu, Robert L. Grossman
ICMB
2005
IEEE
79views Business» more  ICMB 2005»
15 years 10 months ago
Identity Management in Vertical Handovers for UMTS-WLAN Networks
One motivation of mobile Next-Generation Networks (NGN) is the ubiquitous computing abilities, which provide automatic handovers for any moving computing devices in a globally net...
Mo Li, Kumbesan Sandrasegaran, Xiaoan Huang
NSDI
2004
15 years 6 months ago
Contract-Based Load Management in Federated Distributed Systems
This paper focuses on load management in looselycoupled federated distributed systems. We present a distributed mechanism for moving load between autonomous participants using bil...
Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Michael S...
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
CrowdWeaver: visually managing complex crowd work
Though toolkits exist to create complex crowdsourced workflows, there is limited support for management of those workflows. Managing crowd workers and tasks requires significant i...
Aniket Kittur, Susheel Khamkar, Paul André,...
PDCAT
2007
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Grid Unit: A Self-Managing Building Block for Grid System
—Grid system software is inherently complex, hard to build and maintain. In this paper, we propose a selfmanaging building block: Grid Unit, which facilitates constructing Grid s...
Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Ming Zou, Hui Wang, Shuan...