More and more parallel applications are running in a distributed environment to take advantage of easily available and inexpensive commodity resources. For data intensive applicat...
In today's distributed computing environments, users are makingincreasing demands on the systems, networks, and applications they use. Users are coming to expect performance,...
Michael Katchabaw, Stephen L. Howard, Andrew D. Ma...
Streaming media applications are becoming more popular on the late years, as for example, news transmitted live through the web, music, show, and films. Traditional client/server...
Marisa A. Vasconcelos, Leonardo C. da Rocha, Julia...
The process of forming coalitions of software agents generally requires calculating a value for every possible coalition which indicates how beneficial that coalition would be if...
Abstract. QoS-aware distributed applications such as certain Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing applications can benefit greatly from the provision of QoS guarantees from the unde...