New applications for the Internet such as video on demand, grid computing etc. depend on the availability of high bandwidth connections with acceptable Quality of Service (QoS). T...
David Michael Turner, Vassilis Prevelakis, Angelos...
Grid computing involves the transparent sharing of computational resources of many types by users across large geographic distances. The altruistic nature of many current grid reso...
Daniel C. Vanderster, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Randa...
The ability to record and account for the usage of computational resources in a standardised way across different systems from multiple administrative domains is a precursor to wi...
A key issue in utility computing environments, such as utility Grids, is the provisioning, orchestration and allocation of resources to services. In these environments, providers ...
Reputation systems aggregate mutual feedback of interacting peers into a "reputation" metric for each participant. This is then available to prospective service "req...