The Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management and job scheduling system for grid computing on Internet-wide computational resources, particularly low-end pe...
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...
GeneSyS is an IST project (IST-2001-34162) developing a new generic middleware for supervising distributed systems at different levels such as Application, Network, System. The pr...
Software composition via workflow specifications has received a great deal of attention recently. One reason is the high degree of fit with the encapsulation of software modules...
Business to consumer is expected to be one of the fastest growing segments of electronic commerce. One important and challenging problem in such context, is the satisfaction of use...