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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Management for Grid Environments
An overview of research and development challenges for managing data in Grid environments is provided. We relate issues in data management at various levels of abstraction, from resources storing data sets, to...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Infrastructure Issues and Themes for Scalable Multi-agent Systems
Various toolkits have been developed in the research community for constructing multi-agent systems. These toolkits differ in the types of programming languages they support, particular agent services they can...
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A Collaborative Code Development Environment for Computational Electro-Magnetics
A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) is a complete, integrated computing environment for composing, compiling and running applications in a specific problem area or domain. We describe a visual code development...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An XML Based Component Model for Generating Scientific Applications and Performing Large Scale Simulations in a Meta-computing Environment
The architecture of a component based environment for constructing scientific applications — generally referred to as a Problem Solving Environment (PSE), is described. Each component is a self-contained progr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementing Problem Solving Environments for Computational Science
A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) should aim to hide implementation and systems details from application developers, to enable a scientist or engineer to concentrate on the science. A PSE is, by definition, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automating Performance Analysis from UML Design Patterns
We describe a technique for deriving performance models from design patterns expressed in the Unified Modelling Language (UML) notation. Each design pattern captures a theme within the Aglets mobile agent libr...