The Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) can be used to develop a range of applications which are in turn composed of multiple sub-tasks. In particular SAGA is an effective tool...
This paper reports a longitudinal study of the design and implementation of a Web-based groupware application. We studied the development of three versions of the application, and...
The ability to construct dynamic, flexible virtual organizations becomes one of the most desired features of a distributed application system. This paper proposes an agent-mediated...
State-of-the-art run-time systems are a poor match to diverse, dynamic distributed applications because they are designed to provide support to a wide variety of applications, with...
Lawrence Rauchwerger, Nancy M. Amato, Josep Torrel...
Abstract. A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, the current SLAs offered by cloud providers do no...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...