As the complexity and application scope of agent-based systems increases, the requirements placed on Agent Communication Languages have also increased with it. Currently-available...
Ethernet is a widely used low-cost networking technology. It however lacks the determinism and resource management features needed to meet realtime requirements of multimedia appli...
One of the guiding principles of the Grid is local (site) autonomy. Resource owners maintain control over their resources even when those resources are part of a larger Grid. In o...
Jun Feng, Lingling Cui, Glenn S. Wasson, Marty Hum...
Financial efficiency is the premier performance measure for most systems. Existing economic ecosystems for distribution of multimedia leave a lot to be desired: client-server plat...
To increase the scale and performance of scientific applications, scientists commonly distribute computation over multiple processors. Often without realizing it, file I/O is pa...
Seetharami R. Seelam, Andre Kerstens, Patricia J. ...