OSIRIS is a middleware for the composition and orchestration of distributed web services that follows a P2P decentralized approach to process execution, providing already some deg...
Data replications is a typical strategy for increasing access performance and data availability in Data Grid systems. Current work on data replication in Grid systems focuses on i...
In the past, we have observed several large blackouts, i.e. loss of power to large areas. It has been noted by several researchers that these large blackouts are a result of a cas...
In ad-hoc Grids where the availability of resources and tasks changes over the time, distributing the tasks among the scarce resources in a balanced way is a challenging task. In ...
A language for semi-structured documents, XML has emerged as the core of the web services architecture, and is playing crucial roles in messaging systems, databases, and document p...