For service applications on a network, measuring availability, performance, and quality of service is critical. Yet traditional software and hardware measures are both inadequate ...
TextGrid is a new Grid project in the framework of the German D-Grid initiative, with the aim to deploy Grid technologies for humanities scholars working on historical (German) te...
Grid applications comprise several components and web-services that make them highly prone to the occurrence of transient software failures and aging problems. This type of failur...
—For modern scientific applications such as astrophysics, astronomy, aerography, and biology, a large amount of storage space is required because of the large-scale datasets. Dat...
Pervasive computing provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. Mobile computing devices such as mobile phones together with a land-based and wireless communication ...