In this paper we describe Maestro, a dataflow computation framework for Ibis, our Java-based grid middleware. The novelty of Maestro is that it is a self-organizing peer-to-peer s...
— Reputation systems have been a hot topic in the peer-to-peer community for several years. In a services-oriented distributed computing environment like the Grid, reputation sys...
— Forecast, detection and warning of severe weather and related hydro-geological risks is becoming one of the major issues for civil protection. The use of computational intellig...
Erika Coppola, Barbara Tomassetti, Marco Verdecchi...
Many large-scale production applications often have very long executions times and require periodic data checkpoints in order to save the state of the computation for program rest...
Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. ...
Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...