Although Virtual Learning Environments have become popular educational tools, they remain a very active research topic. Two important aspects being discussed for next-generation V...
The next generation Grid will demand the Grid middleware to provide flexibility, transparency, and reliability. This implies the appliance of service level agreements to guarantee...
We describe the use of component architecture in an area to which this approach has not been classically applied, the area of cluster system software. By "cluster system soft...
Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Ewing L. Lusk, Ralf ...
Web Services-based business processes spread over the boundaries of companies, requiring the integration of customers, suppliers and partners to achieve inter-organizational busine...
The use of redundant computational nodes is a widely used design tactic to improve the reliability of complex embedded systems. However, this redundancy allocation has also an effe...