In a grid computing environment, resources are autonomous, wide-area distributed, and what’s more, they are usually not free. These unique characteristics make scheduling in a s...
Component-based software engineering is a paradigm aiming at better ways to reuse existing code and to distribute work across teams. Integrating UI components developed with diffe...
We propose a biologically inspired and fully-decentralized approach to the organization of computation that is based on the autonomous scheduling of strongly mobile agents on a pe...
Arjav J. Chakravarti, Gerald Baumgartner, Mario La...
Grid technologies have enabled the aggregation of geographically distributed resources, in the context of a particular application. The network remains an important requirement for...
This paper describes the current status and programme of continued development and support for the UK’s National Grid Service (NGS). Through the activities presented in this pap...