Component-based development has emerged as an effective approach to building flexible systems, but there is little experience in applying this approach to Grid programming. This p...
Nikos Parlavantzas, Matthieu Morel, Vladimir Getov...
Background: Microarray techniques are one of the main methods used to investigate thousands of gene expression profiles for enlightening complex biological processes responsible f...
Luca Corradi, Marco Fato, Ivan Porro, Silvia Scagl...
Many grid applications need to transfer large amounts of data between the geographically distributed sites of a grid environment. Network heterogeneity between these sites makes t...
This paper studies five real-world data intensive workflow applications in the fields of natural language processing, astronomy image analysis, and web data analysis. Data intensiv...
Replication is a technique commonly used to increase the availability of services in distributed systems, including grid and web services. While replication is relatively easy for...
Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Matti A. Hiltunen,...