Asynchronous Transfer Mode is becoming a widespread technology for both local and wide area networks. We describe our ATM-connected computing and storage resources at Adelaide and Canberra. We report on measurements of the performance of our system and discuss the implications for wide area distributed, highperformance computing (DHPC) applications. In particular we discuss e ects of bandwidth ...

All research should be guided by a process that begins with the researcher's philosophical world view and then details why has value, how was done, particular approach used. In addition, this made known to community. paper we argue theoretical or applied computing does not normally conform common of being explicit about used but it do so. We adopt pragmatic use an argumentation method within an...

Over the last few years an enormous amount of research has been devoted to restore astronomical images, but not much work has been reported on the use of multichannel techniques to restore such images. In this work, we rst brieey summarize the research carried out on image restoration within the Converging Computing Methodologies network and then concentrate on the multichannel image restoratio...

Ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) applications involve large numbers of non-traditional networked computing devices which are often mobile and/or equipped with sensors to collect data. So far there is only limited knowledge on the impact of these technologies on business processes and how these applications can create value. In this paper we consider challenges for identifying valuecreating UbiCom...

We address the batch arrival  systems with finite capacity under partial batch acceptance strategy where service times or rates oscillate between two forms according to the evolution of the number of customers in the system. Applying the theory of Markov regenerative processes and resorting to Markov chain embedding, we present a new algorithm for computing limit distributions of the number cus...

During the last two decades Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have strongly influenced organizational processes as well as logistics. Therefore, ICT provide many benefits in logistics sector, including time and cost reduction and improved efficiency and performance. However, new solutions and innovative ideas are constantly emerging which intrigues new possibilities for the reorg...

Many important advances in science and engineering are due to large-scale distributed computing. Notwithstanding this reliance, we are still learning how to design and deploy large-scale production Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI). This is evidenced by missing design principles for DCI, and an absence of generally acceptable and usable distributed computing abstractions. These gaps u...