Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
We survey some issues that relate to context dependence and context sensitivity in the development of software, particularly in relation to information systems by defining a range...
One resource playing a critical role in electronically supported decision-making groups is the facilitator. Facilitation is a complex task, encompassing social abilities, pre-meet...
When implementing persistent objects on a relational database, a major performance issue is prefetching data to minimize the number of roundtrips to the database. This is especial...
Abstract. Amongst its many features, MPI-2 offers the first standard highperformance I/O interface. While this enables a parallel and I/O intensive code to run on multiple platform...