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,...
Distributed Virtual Computer (DVC) is a computing environment which simplifies the development and execution of distributed applications on computational grids. DVC provides a sim...
Public Key Infrastructures suffer from usability and security problems associated with the request for and secure management of end user credentials. Online credential repositorie...
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...
A new computational framework is developed for the evolutionary determination of molecular crystal structures using the Shake-and-Bake methodology. Genetic algorithms are performe...