—Integration of heterogeneous information becomes again a requirement with the emergence of large-scale distributed applications such as Web-Services based Applications. Enterpri...
- Monitoring and controlling a large number of geographically distributed scientific instruments is a challenging task. Some operations on these instruments require real-time (or q...
Chenxi Huang, Peter R. Hobson, Gareth A. Taylor, P...
BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing, involves projects, which distribute jobs, and hosts, which execute jobs. The local (host-level) scheduler addresses two issues:...
—Mobile terminals with built-in GPS receivers are becoming more and more available, thus the public deployment of location-based services (LBS) becomes feasible. Upcoming LBS are...
The paper addresses the challenges and opportunities of instrumenting pervasive computing systems with a logical clock, aware of the quality of synchronization with respect to a t...
Andrea Bondavalli, Andrea Ceccarelli, Lorenzo Fala...