Web Services are becoming more and more fundamental building blocks of Web-based distributed applications and a core technology for Grid systems. Due to their flexibility, Web Ser...
There are two popular parallel programming paradigms available to high performance computing users such as engineering and physics professionals: message passing and distributed s...
Lorena B. C. Passos, Gerson H. Pfitscher, Tarcisio...
Research on organization of Multi-Agent Systems (M.A.S.) has shown that by adapting its organization, a M.A.S. is better able to operate in dynamic environments. In this paper we ...
Mattijs Ghijsen, Wouter N. H. Jansweijer, Bob J. W...
Left unchecked, the fundamental drive to increase peak performance using tens of thousands of power hungry components will lead to intolerable operating costs and failure rates. R...
In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...