The development of many highly dynamic environments, like pervasive environments, introduces the possibility to use geographically closely-related services. Dynamically integrating...
The development of a real time image processing on a specific architecture is always restricting for the user who must master all the elementary mechanisms of the machine. Such sp...
In the past, efficient parallel algorithms have always been developed specifically for the successive generations of parallel systems (vector machines, shared-memory machines, d...
1 Most recent Grid middleware technologies have been aimed at the execution of sequential batch jobs. However, some users require interactive access when running jobs on Grid sites...
: This paper discusses the issues and promising approaches in (1) obtaining rigorous specifications of the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements associated with application functio...