Resource brokering in Grids is nowadays handled by resource brokers that require detailed knowledge of the state of the resources that they broker. In business settings, surrender...
Abstract Mobile and wireless devices become more popular and their capabilities increase as well. At the same time, most of the today's PC power is unused, as a study of the G...
The Protein Information Resource (PIR) serves as an integrated public resource of functional annotation of protein data to support genomic/proteomic research and scientific discov...
Cathy H. Wu, Hongzhan Huang, Leslie Arminski, Jorg...
By definition, a heavyweight network service requires a significant amount of computation to complete its task. Providing a heavyweight service is challenging for a number of reaso...
Large scale distributed applications such as electronic commerce and online marketplaces combine network access with multiple storage and computational elements. The distributed r...
Sotiris Ioannidis, Steven M. Bellovin, John Ioanni...