Abstract—In the past few years, P2P file distribution applications (e.g., BitTorrent) are becoming so popular that they are the dominating source of Internet traffic. This crea...
We introduce a programming environment entitled Share that is designed to encourage loosely bound cooperation between individuals within communities of practice through the sharin...
This paper presents a new distributed computing framework for Many Task Computing (MTC) applications, based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). A lightweight...
Lance Stout, Michael A. Murphy, Sebastien Goasguen
In large projects, software developers struggle with two sources of complexity ? the complexity of the code itself, and the complexity of the process of producing it. Both of thes...
Open-source software development projects are almost always collaborative and distributed. Despite the difficulties imposed by distance, these projects have managed to produce lar...