The next generation Grid will demand the Grid middleware to provide flexibility, transparency, and reliability. This implies the appliance of service level agreements to guarantee...
We investigate the circumstances under which it is possible to discourage free-riding in a peer-to-peer system for resource-sharing by prioritizing resource allocation to peers wi...
Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Walfredo Cirne,...
The Grid approach provides the ability to access and use distributed resources as part of virtual organizations. The emerging Grid infrastructure gives rise to a class of scientif...
Rashid J. Al-Ali, Gregor von Laszewski, Kaizar Ami...
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) bring the promise of increased availability of data to wide-area systems, under the assumption of uniform request load. However, they don't int...