—Current multimedia application deployment tends to rely on composable service systems, where a complex multimedia service can be composed dynamically from multiple simpler ones ...
Abstract--Service-Oriented Architectures address the development of distributed and dynamic service-based applications. Due to the dynamics of their environments, services should b...
Andre Lage Freitas, Jean-Louis Pazat, Nikos Parlav...
Grid computing is about allocating distributed collections of resources including computers, storage systems, networks and instruments to form a coherent system devoted to a “vir...
Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Marcus Christie, Liang ...
Monitoring the real-time status of voluntary nodes is a basic task of Quality of Services (QoS) management in grid. The heterogeneity of distributed host resources is an obvious ob...
—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...