This paper presents research on the application of the means-end chain (MEC) framework for investigating customers cognitive structure regarding community applications. It is argu...
Incentive mechanisms are essential components of peer-topeer systems for file sharing such as BitTorrent, since they enforce peers to share their resources and to participate. Re...
Thomas Silverston, Olivier Fourmaux, Jon Crowcroft
Resource management is a central part of a Grid computing system. In a large-scale wide-area system such as the Grid, security is a prime concern. One approach is to be conservati...
— In this paper, we introduce a search engine, Dgoogle, designed for large scale P2P systems. Dgoogle is purely text-based, does not organize documents based on pre-defined keyw...
— Distributed software environments are increasingly complex and difficult to manage, as they integrate various legacy software with specific management interfaces. Moreover, t...
Laurent Broto, Daniel Hagimont, Estella Annoni, Be...