In recent years, a lot of research effort has been dedicated to the management of Quality of Service (QoS), mainly in the fields of telecommunication networks and multimedia syste...
The popularity of multimedia streaming services via wireless home networks has confronted major challenges in quality improvement for services through a set top box (STB). Even th...
Heung Ki Lee, Varrian Hall, Ki Hwan Yum, Kyoung Il...
In this paper we introduce the iTask system: a set of combinators to specify work flows in a pure functional language at a very high level of abstraction. Work flow systems are au...
Rinus Plasmeijer, Peter Achten, Pieter W. M. Koopm...
During our work with microfinance groups in rural India, we found that paper plays a crucial role in many local information practices. However, paperbased record keeping can be in...
In this paper we present an initial analysis of job failures in a large-scale data-intensive Grid. Based on three representative periods in production, we characterize the interar...
Hui Li, David L. Groep, Lex Wolters, Jeffrey Templ...