The creation of a virtual world environment (VWE) has significant costs, such as maintenance of server rooms, server administration, and customer service. The initial development...
Luis Diego Briceno, Howard Jay Siegel, Anthony A. ...
Replication is a technique commonly used to increase the availability of services in distributed systems, including grid and web services. While replication is relatively easy for...
Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Matti A. Hiltunen,...
Abstract. Grid architectures are execution environments that are known to be at the same time distributed, parallel, heterogeneous and dynamic. While current tools focus solutions ...
Scientists have long relied on abstract models to study phenomena that are too complex for direct observation and experimentation. As new scientific modeling methodologies emerge...
Advances in network technologies and the emergence of Grid computing have both increased the need and provided the infrastructure for computation and data intensive applications to...
Anastasios Gounaris, Rizos Sakellariou, Norman W. ...