Abstract—A premier goal of resource allocators in virtualization environments is to control the relative resource consumption of the different virtual machines, and moreover, to ...
—Collecting information about user activity in peer-to-peer systems is a key but challenging task. We describe here a distributed platform for doing so on the eDonkey network, re...
Parallel applications typically run in batch mode, sometimes after long waits in a scheduler queue. In some situations, it would be desirable to interactively add new functionalit...
Public resource computing depends on the availability of computing resources that have been contributed by individuals. The amount of resources can be increased by incentivizing r...
—Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is increasingly being applied to optimisation of multi-objective problems in engineering design and scientific investigation. This paper inves...