One vision of an opportunistic sensor network (OSN) uses sensor access points (SAPs) to assign mobile sensors with sensing tasks submitted by applications that could be running any...
Grid computing involves the transparent sharing of computational resources of many types by users across large geographic distances. The altruistic nature of many current grid reso...
Daniel C. Vanderster, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Randa...
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by supporting atomic and isolated execution of user-identified tasks. To date, TM programming has required the use of l...
Woongki Baek, Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, Chri...
Clusters of workstations have emerged as an important platform for building cost-effective, scalable, and highlyavailable computers. Although many hardware solutions are available...
Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Juan Fern&aa...
This paper proposes a new method for programming and controlling distributed tasks. Applications declare behavior patterns that are used to automatically predict and reserve resou...