evel of abstraction, we can represent a workflow as a directed graph with operators (or tasks) at the vertices (see Figure 1). Each operator takes inputs from data sources or from ...
The rapidly increasing traffic demand from mobile users forces network operators and service providers to extend and optimize existing networks as well as to plan entirely new mo...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
Abstract—This article describes a distributed classroom experiment carried out by five universities in the US and Europe at the beginning of 2007. This experiment was motivated ...
Andrei Hutanu, Ravi Paruchuri, Daniel Eiland, Milo...
Many networked applications could benefit from executing closer to the data or services with which they interact. By doing this they may be able to circumvent long communication l...
Dickon Reed, Ian Pratt, Paul Menage, Stephen Early...