— 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...
Abstract. In order to escape from local optima, it is standard practice to periodically restart a genetic algorithm according to some restart criteria/policy. This paper addresses ...
High-performance execution in distributed computing environments often requires careful selection and configuration not only of computers, networks, and other resources but also o...
Steven Fitzgerald, Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, ...
In this paper, designing an effective user relaying algorithm, in terms of relay node selection and power allocation, is discussed for amplify-and-forward wireless relay networks. ...
Jun Cai, Xuemin Shen, Jon W. Mark, Attahiru Sule A...
ALPS is a per-application user-level proportional-share scheduler that operates with low overhead and without any special kernel support. ALPS is useful to a range of applications...