This article presents a novel method for computing distances between hosts in a computational Grid. Our method allows to represent the cost to achieve any operation involving some...
Abstract. The emergence of large-scale online collaboration requires current information systems to be apprehended as service ensembles comprising human and software service entiti...
We consider the problem of e-Infrastructures that wish to reconcile the generality of their services with the bespoke requirements of diverse user communities. We motivate the requ...
Fabio Simeoni, Leonardo Candela, David Lievens, Pa...
For the composition of Web services non-functional characteristics are commonly considered criteria for finding and selecting available services. Our work focuses on a mechanism ...
Michael C. Jaeger, Gregor Rojec-Goldmann, Gero M&u...
Most of the work on grid technology in the video area has been generally restricted to aspects of resource scheduling and replica management. The traffic of such a service has a lo...
Peng Gao, Tao Liu, Yanming Chen, Xingyao Wu, Yehia...