Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
— The advent of packet networks has motivated many researchers to study the performance of networks of queues in the last decade or two. However, most of the previous work assume...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...
Most digital libraries (DLs) necessarily focus on the complex issues that arise when library collections are freed from their physical anchors in buildings and on paper. Typical i...
alization is a combination of abstract generated forms and found imagery. The frequency, amplitude, and percentage differences between samples of incoming data are mapped to forms ...