Abstract. Current solutions for fault-tolerance in HPC systems focus on dealing with the result of a failure. However, most are unable to handle runtime system configuration change...
Mobile agents are software entities consisting of code, data and state that can migrate autonomously from host to host executing their code. Unfortunately, security issues restrict...
Compared with previous video coding standards, H.264/AVC employs a division-free quantization scheme. The relation between quantization parameter and quantization step changes from...
This paper proposes a new e-procurement model for a large number of buyers and sellers interacting via the Internet. The goal of e-procurement is to create a satisfactory match bet...
We present the framework of a new grid architecture based on the peer-to-peer and the component paradigms. In our architecture, several peer-to-peer components are loosely coupled...