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ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Effectiveness of Threshold-Based Scheduling Policies in BOINC Projects
Several scientific projects use BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) to perform largescale simulations using volunteers’ computers (workers) across the Int...
Trilce Estrada, David A. Flores, Michela Taufer, P...
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 22 hour ago
Designing incentives for inexpert human raters
The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this pap...
Aaron D. Shaw, John J. Horton, Daniel L. Chen
ACSC
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Verification of the SIP Transaction Using Coloured Petri Nets
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is one of the leading protocols for multimedia control over the Internet, including initiating, maintaining and terminating multimedia sessio...
Lin Liu
PODC
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Robust network supercomputing without centralized control
Internet supercomputing is becoming an increasingly popular means for harnessing the power of a vast number of interconnected computers. This comes at a cost substantially lower t...
Seda Davtyan, Kishori M. Konwar, Alexander A. Shva...
NCA
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Designing Mechanisms for Reliable Internet-based Computing
In this work, using a game-theoretic approach, costsensitive mechanisms that lead to reliable Internet-based computing are designed. In particular, we consider Internet-based mast...
Antonio Fernández Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, ...