Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although cl...
Forecasting workflow activity durations is of great importance to support satisfactory QoS in workflow systems. Traditionally, a workflow system is often designed to facilitate the...
Everyday work frequently involves coordinating and collaborating with others, but the structure of collaboration is largely invisible to conventional desktop applications. We are ...
As the number and variety of Web- and network-based applications continues to increase, so does the need for flexible communication protocols and services to support them. Traditi...
Bobby Krupczak, Mostafa H. Ammar, Kenneth L. Calve...
Metacomputing is an emergent paradigm that makes possible to distribute applications over a heterogeneous set of computing systems to exploit all available resources. The paper pr...
Antonio Corradi, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonel...