Large scale bioinformatics experiments are usually composed by a set of data flows generated by a chain of activities (programs or services) that may be modeled as scientific work...
Quorums are a basic construct in solving many fundamental distributed computing problems. One of the known ways of making quorums scalable and efficient is by weakening their int...
The relevance of distributed virtual environments (DVE) and interactive 3D worlds for entertaining and commercial purposes is steadily increasing. DVEs are typically implemented a...
Data replication is an excellent technique to move and cache data close to users. By replication, data access performance can be improved dramatically. One of the challenges in da...
Distributed computing middleware needs to support a wide range of resources, such as diverse software components, various hardware devices, and heterogeneous operating systems and...
Han Gao, Ivan R. Judson, Thomas D. Uram, Terry Dis...