Solving the problem of mutually exclusive access to a critical resource is a major challenge
in distributed systems. In some solutions, there is a unique token in the whole system which …

With the proliferation of Web services, scientific applications are more and more designed as
temporal compositions of services, commonly referred to as workflows. To address this …

The growth for scientific data has led to data analysis being a critical step in the scientific
process. The next generation scientific data analysis environment needs to address two …

Facing the scale, heterogeneity and dynamics of the global computing platform emerging on
top of the Internet, autonomic computing has been raised recently as one of the top …

With the emergence of highly heterogeneous, dynamic and large distributed platforms,
declarative programming, whose goal is to ease the programmer's task by separating the …

With the rise of Service Computing, applications are more and more built as temporal
compositions of autonomous services, in which services are combined dynamically to satisfy …

Résumé La difficulté de la programmation des systemes répartisa large échelle est encore
aujourd'hui un freina leur développement. Le paradigme chimique fournit une abstraction de …

In this paper, we are interested in the runtime complexity of programs based on multiset
rewriting. The motivation behind this work is the study of the complexity of chemistry-inspired …

Every time a new type of computing platforms appears, the challenge comes back:
increasing the amount of computing resources does not guarantee that such a computing …

With the emergence of cloud computing and mobile applications, it is possible to find a web
service for almost everything. Moreover, developers can create complex applications by …