Heterogeneous users usually have different requirements as far as consistency of shared data is concerned. This paper proposes and investigates a mixed consistency model to meet t...
Security in collaborative groups is an active research topic and has been recognized by many organizations in the past few years. In this paper, we propose a fine-grained and attr...
In this paper, we introduce the combinatorial auction model for resource management in grids. We propose a combinatorial auction-based resource allocation protocol in which a user...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a parallel fractal image compression using the programmable graphics hardware. The main problem of fractal compression is the very high computin...
Todays computational grids are used mostly for batch processing and throughput computing, where jobs are submitted to a queue, processed, and finally delivered for post-mortem an...