Cloud computing presents exciting opportunities to foster research for scientific
communities; virtual machine technology has a profound role in this. Among other benefits …

Grid computing provides the infrastructure necessary to access and use distributed
resources as part of virtual organizations. When used in this way, Grid computing makes it …

Today, large-scale distributed Cloud computing infrastructures are often characterized by
the fact that each participating organization, like a company in the free economy scenario …

One of the most important challenges in manufacturing is the continuous process
improvement that requires new insights about the behavior/quality control of processes in …

Real-time Grid applications are emerging in many disciplines of science and engineering. In
order to run these applications while meeting the associated real-time constraints with them …

We present in this paper a multi-shot human reidentification system from video sequences
based on SURF matching. Our contribution is about the matching step which is crucial. In …

Although Web services are intended for short term, ad hoc collaborations, in practice many
Web service compositions are offered longterm to customers. While the Web services …

This paper argues for the need to provide more flexibility in the level of service offered by
Grid-enable high-performance, parallel, supercomputing resources. It is envisaged that such …

With the explosive growth of mobile applications and high computation burden on each
single device, more and more end users demand to offload expensive computing tasks to …

In general, two types of resource reservations in computer networks can be distinguished:
immediate reservations which are made in a just-in-time manner and advance reservations …