— The increasing heterogeneity, dynamism, and uncertainty of emerging DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) systems imply that an application must be able to detect and adapt t...
One of the major premises of P2P systems is to enable fully decentralized collaborative functionalities for supporting work teams and P2P communities. Within collaborative systems,...
Abstract— This paper presents our work on supporting flexible query evaluation over large distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous sources. Flexibility means that the query ev...
Malleability enables a parallel application’s execution system to split or merge processes modifying granularity. While process migration is widely used to adapt applications to...
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Travis J. Desell, Boleslaw K...
: The object abstraction has long proven to be an effective foundation upon which to structure application codes; however, its application to Grid Computing contains many challenge...