In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
Abstract--Conducting valid comparative evaluations of techniques in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) presents particular challenges to MIR researchers due to issues o...
Kris West, Amit Kumar, Andrew Shirk, Guojun Zhu, J...
s In grid computing, the goals of task scheduling is to achieve high system optimization performance while matching multi-dimension Quiality of Service(QoS) requirement of applicat...
The paper considers distributed applications where interactions between constituent services take place via messages in an asynchronous environment with unpredictable communicatio...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...