This paper presents the Virtual EZ Grid project, based on the XtremWeb-CH (XWCH) volunteer computing platform. The goal of the project is to introduce a flexible distributed comput...
Mohamed Ben Belgacem, Nabil Abdennadher, Marko Nii...
Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...
Industrial research firms such as Gartner and IDC are predicting an explosion in the number of online services in the coming years. Virtualization technologies could play an impor...
Tingxi Tan, Rob Simmonds, Bradley Arlt, Martin F. ...
Grid computing systems pool together the resources of many workstations to create a virtual computing reservoir. Users can "draw" resources using a pay-as-you-go model, c...
Collaborative work requires, more than ever, access to data located on multiple autonomous and heterogeneous data sources. The development of these novel information platforms, ref...