Scheduling parallel and distributed applications efficiently onto grid environments is a difficult task and a great variety of scheduling heuristics have been developed aiming to ...
Alexandre Ceasar Tavares Vidal, Francisco Jos&eacu...
The ever growing request for digital information raises the need for content distribution architectures providing high storage capacity, data availability and good performance. Wh...
Spatial abstractions promise to be basic necessary ingredients for a novel “spatial computing” approach to distributed systems development and management, suitable to tackle th...
The centralized system approach for computer and telecommunication network management has been presenting scalability problems along with the growth in the number and diversity of...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...