Very large size Peer-to-Peer systems are often required to implement efficient and scalable services, but usually they can be built only by assembling resources contributed by ma...
DNA sequence comparison is a computationally intensive problem, known widely since the competition for human DNA decryption. Database search for DNA sequence comparison is of grea...
A general approach to achieve anonymity on P2P networks is to construct an indirect path between client and server for each data transfer. The indirection, together with randomnes...
In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...
— This paper describes work in progress to extend component models to support Master-Worker applications and to let them to be executed on Grid infrastructures. The proposed appr...