—this paper studies the influence that task placement may have on the performance of applications, mainly due to the relationship between communication locality and overhead. Thi...
Javier Navaridas, Jose Antonio Pascual, José...
Mashups are new Web 2.0 applications that seamlessly combine contents from multiple heterogeneous data sources into one integrated browser environment. The hallmark of these appli...
— In large-scale distributed execution environments such as multicluster systems and grids, resource availability may vary due to resource failures and because resources may be a...
Jeremy Buisson, Omer Ozan Sonmez, Hashim H. Mohame...
Distributed computations, dealing with large amounts of data, are scheduled in Grid clusters today using either a task-centric mechanism, or a worker-centric mechanism. Because of ...
Over-the-air (OTA) delivery of applications is important to support as it enables easy deployment and upgrades to applications, thereby reducing the disrupting effect which instal...