Grid Workflows are emerging as practical programming models for solving large e-scientific problems on the Grid. However, it is typically assumed that the workflow components eith...
Our research addresses two important problems that arise in modern large-scale distributed systems: (1) the necessity to virtualize their data flows by applying actions such as ï...
Radhika Niranjan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan,...
Increased concern about bioterrorism and emerging diseases is driving the development of systems for early epidemic detection. These systems have different requirements than tradit...
David L. Buckeridge, Martin J. O'Connor, Haobo Xu,...
In pervasive computing environments, conditions are highly variable and resources are limited. In order to meet the needs of applications, systems must adapt dynamically to changi...
Farshad A. Samimi, Philip K. McKinley, Seyed Masou...
Hard-disk drive power consumption reduction methods focus mainly on increasing the amount of time the disk is in standby mode (disk spun down) by implementing aggressive data read...