The increasingly common practice of replicating datasets and using resources as distributed data stores in Grid environments has led to the problem of determining which replica ca...
Recent technology advances have enabled mediated query processing with Internet accessible WebSources. A characteristic of WebSources is that their access costs exhibit transient ...
Abstract— This work presents an infrastructure that simplifies the development of distributed applications that can adapt automatically to nonfunctional properties of their comp...
Wireless technologies and applications received great attention in recent years. The medium access control (MAC) protocol is the main element that determines the efficiency in sha...
Shiann-Tsong Sheu, Tobias Chen, Jenhui Chen, Fun Y...
In this paper, we investigate an efficient off-line scheduling algorithm in which real-time tasks with precedence constraints are executed in a heterogeneous environment. It provi...