Thanks to advances in wide-area network technologies and the low cost of computing
resources, Grid computing came into being and is currently an active research area. One …

Advances in networking technologies will soon make it possible to use the global
information infrastructure in a qualitatively different way—as a computational as well as an …

The ability to harness heterogeneous, dynamically available grid resources is attractive to
typically resource-starved computational scientists and engineers, as in principle it can …

Mobile code carried by a mobile agent can automatically travel to several data sources in
order to complete a designated program. Traditionally, most mobile agent systems [7][8][13] …

Resource selection is fundamental to the performance of master/slave applications. In this
paper, we address the problem of promoting performance for distributed master/slave …

This article debates on notions of context-awareness as a relevant asset of networking and
computing architectures for an Internet of Things (IoT), in particular in regards to a smoother …

Wireless sensor networks are made of autonomous tiny robust nodes called as motes for
monitoring the environment where they are deployed. Their tiny and autonomous …

The performance skeleton of an application is a short running program whose performance
in any scenario reflects the performance of the application it represents. Specifically, the …

One of the most popular ways to implement parallel operations on distributed-memory
architectures is with a Master-Worker (MW) organization that concentrates control functions …

In this paper, we show that distributed parallel application performance in clusters of
workstations benefits from knowledge about network topology in cases where LAN …