Modern scientific experiments can generate large amounts of data, which may be replicated and distributed across multiple resources to improve application performance and fault to...
Recently, we have proposed a comprehensive agent-based e-commerce system. While UML formalized, it lacked details how basic functions – e.g. user request to purchase a given pro...
Maciej Gawinecki, Maria Ganzha, Pawel Kobzdej, Mar...
Resource reservations in advance are a mature concept for the allocation of various resources, particularly in grid environments. Common grid toolkits such as Globus support advanc...
— While multicast has been studied extensively in many domains such as content streaming and file sharing, there is little research applying it to synchronous collaborations invo...
This paper presents the design of a new middleware which provides support for trust and accountability in distributed data sharing communities. One application is in the context of...
Paul Ruth, Dongyan Xu, Bharat K. Bhargava, Fred Re...