Increasing complexity of distributed applications and commodity of resources through grids are making the tasks of deploying those applications harder. There is a clear need for s...
An ad hoc grid is a spontaneous formation of cooperating heterogenous computing nodes which attempts to provide computing resources on demand to every participant. In this paper, ...
With the rapid development of information technology, dramatic changes have been taken place in the fundamental ways that people acquire and disseminate knowledge. Various e-Learni...
Hai Jin, Zuoning Yin, Xudong Yang, Fucheng Wang, J...
Executing long-running parallel applications in Opportunistic Grid environments composed of heterogeneous, shared user workstations, is a daunting task. Machines may fail, become ...
Scientists increasingly rely on the execution of workflows in grids to obtain results from complex mixtures of applications. However, the inherently dynamic nature of grid workflo...