The university campus is an interesting application environment for the ubiquitous computing paradigm: a large number of users share a substantial amount of their information need...
We present a new approach to the grid technology that is based on federated databases and updatable views. Views are used in two ways: (1) as wrappers of local servers that adopt l...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...
Large-scale donation-based distributed infrastructures need to cope with the inherent unreliability of participant nodes. A widely-used work scheduling technique in such environme...
Krishnaveni Budati, Jason D. Sonnek, Abhishek Chan...
— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
Grid Computing is becoming more popular. The traditional role of the Internet as being an information repository is evolving to become a resource repository. People using the Inte...
John P. Morrison, Sunil John, David A. Power, Neil...