We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
: The availability of enormous amounts of un-used computing power and data storage over the In-ternet makes the development of a globally distributed computing platform, called Ove...
Paolo Bertasi, Mauro Bianco, Andrea Pietracaprina,...
In pervasive computing environments, conditions are highly variable and resources are limited. In order to meet the needs of applications, systems must adapt dynamically to changi...
Farshad A. Samimi, Philip K. McKinley, Seyed Masou...
Grid computing supports shared access to computing resources from cooperating organizations or institutes in the form of virtual organizations. Resource brokering middleware, comm...
Norman Bobroff, Liana Fong, Selim Kalayci, Yanbin ...
We present the design of a distributed store that offers various levels of security guarantees while tolerating a limited number of nodes that are compromised by an adversary. The...
Subramanian Lakshmanan, Mustaque Ahamad, H. Venkat...