Increasing hardware performance of desktop computers accounts for a low-cost computing potential that is waiting to be efficiently used. However, the complexity of installation a...
In this paper, we1 study new organizational forms for production processes that emerge in large scale Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. We will focus on the textua...
Vincenzo D'Andrea, Stefano De Paoli, Maurizio Teli
In emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites, the number of users is very important (tens of thousands), hence the amount of data to manage...
Large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multi-player online games in th...
: Scalable Distributed Data Structures (SDDSs) store large scalable files over a distributed RAM of nodes in a grid or a P2P network. The files scale transparently for the applicat...