The next generation Grid will demand the Grid middleware to provide flexibility, transparency, and reliability. This implies the appliance of service level agreements to guarantee...
Data integration systems offer a uniform interface to a set of data sources. Despite recent progress, setting up and maintaining a data integration application still requires sign...
We describe a system for aggregating heterogeneous resources from distinct administrative domains into an enterprise-wide compute grid, such that the aggregated resource provides ...
There have been many debates about the feasibility of providing guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) when network traffic travels beyond the enterprise domain and into the vast unk...
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) provides a rich framework for modeling multi-agent coordination problems. Existing problem domains for DCOP focus on small (<100 vari...