Clusters provide powerful computing environments, but in practice much of this power goes to waste, due to the static allocation of tasks to nodes, regardless of their changing co...
The Application Service Hosting Platform (ASHP) has recently received tremendous attention from both industry and academia. An ASHP provides a shared highperformance infrastructur...
Multi-Agent Systems are a promising way of dealing with large complex problems. However, it is not yet clear just how much complexity or pre-existing structure individual agents m...
To share resources in open distributed systems we have developed autonomous mobile programs, which periodically use a cost model to decide where to execute in a network. In additi...
The availability of powerful personal computers and high bandwidth home connectivity is changing the way users cooperate and exchange information on the network. Peer to peer comp...
Mario Bisignano, Giuseppe Di Modica, Orazio Tomarc...