Peer to peer (P2P) systems are moving from application specific architectures to a generic service oriented design philosophy. This raises interesting problems in connection with...
Large-scale distributed systems, such as e-healthcare systems, are difficult to develop due to their complex and decentralized nature. The Service Oriented Architecture facilitat...
Firat Kart, Gengxin Miao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. M...
Abstract—As the number of wireless sensor network applications continues to grow, the need for specialized task scheduling mechanisms, aware of the sensor devices’ capabilities...
Tim De Pauw, Stijn Verstichel, Bruno Volckaert, Fi...
A number of applications that use GIS for decision support can potentially be enhanced by the use of high-performance computers, broadband networks and mass data stores. We descri...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. Ja...
Recently, virtualization of hardware resources to run multiple instances of independent virtual machines over physical hosts has gained popularity due to an industry-wide focus on ...