Support for distributed application management in large-scale networked environments remains in its early stages. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application ...
Jeannie R. Albrecht, Ryan Braud, Darren Dao, Nikol...
Grid users always expect to meet some challenges to employ Grid resources, such as customized computing environment and QoS support. In this paper, we propose a new methodology fo...
Lizhe Wang, Gregor von Laszewski, Marcel Kunze, Ji...
Because of their severe resource-restrictions and limited user interfaces, smart everyday objects must often rely on remote resources to realize their services. This paper shows ho...
Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
This paper presents a specific contracting algorithm that contributes to the process of distributed planning and resource allocation in competitive, semi-trusted environments. The ...