— Reputation systems have been a hot topic in the peer-to-peer community for several years. In a services-oriented distributed computing environment like the Grid, reputation sys...
Service availability in wireless networks is highly dependent on efficient resource allocation and guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) amid overloads and failures. This paper add...
—Virtual coordinate systems provide an accurate and efficient service that allows hosts on the Internet to determine latency to arbitrary hosts based on information provided by ...
Sheila Becker, Jeff Seibert, David Zage, Cristina ...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Abstract. Inspired by P systems initiated by Gheorghe P˜aun, we study a computation model over a multiset of communicating objects. The objects in our model are instances of fini...