We propose a kind of agent called probe-agent, which is responsible to collect and monitor the data and information according to its goals. On the other hand, it can summarize the ...
The explosion of data in the biological community demands the development of more scalable and flexible portals for bioinformatic computation. To address this need, we put forth c...
Rory Carmichael, Patrick Braga-Henebry, Douglas Th...
Despite great efforts on the design of ultra-reliable components, the increase of system size and complexity has outpaced the improvement of component reliability. As a result, fa...
Jiexing Gu, Ziming Zheng, Zhiling Lan, John White,...
Replication is a key strategy for improving locality, fault tolerance and availability in distributed systems. The paper focuses on distributed file systems and presents a system ...
This paper describes a sensor-based middleware for performance monitoring and data integration in the Grid that is capable of self-management. The middleware unifies both system ...