— A key advantage of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds is providing users on-demand access to resources. However, to provide on-demand access, cloud providers must either...
Abstract. Large-scale Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems with high storage and high bandwidth requirements need a substantial amount of resources to store, distribute and transport all ...
Single system image(SSI) systems have been the mainstay of high-performance computing for many years. SSI requires the integration and aggregation of all types of resources in a c...
The most important recent development in Grid systems is the adoption of the Web services model as a basic architecture for Grid services. The result is called the Open Grid Servi...
Abstract. Social tagging systems provide methods for users to categorise resources using their own choice of keywords (or "tags") without being bound to a restrictive set...
Morgan Harvey, Mark Baillie, Ian Ruthven, Mark Jam...