Platforms of digital democracy, including both those in platforms of e-government and those operating independently, provide a channel of citizen participation enabling democratic...
Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain,...
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When users' tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment (e.g., cluster of heterogeneous computers) are allocated resources, the total demand placed on some sys...
Jong-Kook Kim, Debra A. Hensgen, Taylor Kidd, Howa...
—The ability of a web service to provide low-latency access to its contents is constrained by available network bandwidth. It is important for the service to manage available ban...
Replication in grid file systems can significantly improves I/O performance of data-intensive applications. However, most of existing replication techniques apply to individual ...