Advances in internetworking technology and the decreasing cost-performance ratio of commodity computing components have enabled Volunteer Computing (VC). VC platforms aggregate te...
Bruno Donassolo, Henri Casanova, Arnaud Legrand, P...
Clouds are emerging as an important class of distributed computational resources and are quickly becoming an integral part of production computational infrastructures. An importan...
Hyunjoo Kim, Yaakoub El Khamra, Shantenu Jha, Mani...
ZebraNet is a mobile, wireless sensor network in which nodes move throughout an environment working to gather and process information about their surroundings [10]. As in many sen...
Ting Liu, Christopher M. Sadler, Pei Zhang, Margar...
— A recent trend for data-intensive computations is to use pay-as-you-go execution environments that scale transparently to the user. However, providers of such environments must...
Abstract— Component-based applications require good middleware support. In particular, business logic should be separated from management code for guaranteeing nonfunctional prop...