Most of the information needs today can be satisfied by searching and browsing the Web. However, repetitive tasks such as monitoring information on Web sites should be done autom...
Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) require e cient information retrieval and updating in a dynamic environment at di erent geographical scales. ATIS applications are use...
Parallel computing has become an important research field in the last years. The availability of hardware and the success of grid computing have motivated this interest. In this pa...
The Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) was announced in January 2004 as a new way for manipulating "stateful resources" to perform grid computing tasks using Web Serv...
Many scientific applications manipulate large amount of data and, therefore, are parallelized on high-performance computing systems to take advantage of their computational power a...