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ITRUST
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Experience-Based Trust: Enabling Effective Resource Selection in a Grid Environment
The Grid vision is to allow heterogeneous computational resources to be shared and utilised globally. Grid users are able to submit tasks to remote resources for execution. Howeve...
Nathan Griffiths, Kuo-Ming Chao
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Defragmenting DHT-based Distributed File Systems
Existing DHT-based file systems use consistent hashing to assign file blocks to random machines. As a result, a user task accessing an entire file or multiple files needs to r...
Jeffrey Pang, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky...
ISPDC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Strategyproof Mechanism for Scheduling Divisible Loads in Distributed Systems
An important scheduling problem is the one in which there are no dependencies between tasks and the tasks can be of arbitrary size. This is known as the divisible load scheduling ...
Daniel Grosu, Thomas E. Carroll
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The Biological Basis of the Immune System as a Model for Intelligent Agents
This paper describes the human immune system and its functionalities from a computational viewpoint. The objective of this paper is to provide the biological basis for an artificia...
Roger L. King, Aric B. Lambert, Samuel H. Russ, Do...
WAC
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Semantic-Based Policy Engineering for Autonomic Systems
Abstract. This paper presents some important directions in the use of ontologybased semantics in achieving the vision of Autonomic Communications. We examine the requirements of Au...
David Lewis, Kevin Feeney, Kevin Carey, Thanassis ...