The existence of good probabilistic models for the job arrival process and the delay components introduced at different stages of job processing in a Grid environment is important ...
Shared machines in opportunistic grids typically have large quantities of unused disk space. These resources could be used to store application and checkpointing data when the mac...
Since the birth of computational and data grids, many middlewares have been developed and deployed. Currently, they are used in a multitude of isolated e-Infrastructures and a hot...
- Monitoring and controlling a large number of geographically distributed scientific instruments is a challenging task. Some operations on these instruments require real-time (or q...
Chenxi Huang, Peter R. Hobson, Gareth A. Taylor, P...
: Electronic marketplaces are important facilitators of today’s e-business activities. Besides substantial advantages offered by these exchange sites, emarketplaces do not work u...