Web services allow authorized entities (including individuals, corporations, and automated agents) to employ software components created by other parties scattered across the glob...
Marcus Fontoura, Tobin J. Lehman, Dwayne Nelson, T...
Recent advances in high-speed networks, rapid improvements in microprocessor design, and availability of highly performing clustering software implementations enables cost-effecti...
Ghassan Fadlallah, Michel Lavoie, Louis-A. Dessain...
Effective engineering of the Internet is predicated upon a detailed understanding of issues such as the large-scale structure of its underlying physical topology, the manner in wh...
Alberto Medina, Anukool Lakhina, Ibrahim Matta, Jo...
Assistance – work carried out by one entity in support of another – is a concept of long-standing interest, both as a type of human work common in organizations and as a model...
Thomas Erickson, Catalina M. Danis, Wendy A. Kello...
MapReduce has recently gained a lot of attention as a parallel programming model for scalable data-intensive business and scientific analysis. In order to benefit from this powerf...