Cloud computing provides a promising paradigm for the deployment and utilization of online resources including hardware and software services by Internet users. In such an e-infrastructure environment, the scheduling of user-defined tasks is always considered ...

Keywords: Cloud, Inter-clouds, Inter-enterprises, Federated Clouds, Meta-schedulers, Community Aware Scheduling

Replication techniques are commonplace in P2P computing systems. Initially, the objective of such techniques was to ensure availability of immutable information (typically files) in P2P systems under highly dynamic nature of large P2P systems. But also ...

Keywords: Replication, P2P, JXTA, peer-group, super-peer

Peer-to-peer systems are subject to frequent changes, fact which makes the resource management a very complex task. With the aim of reaching extreme scalability, centralized models no longer represent feasible solutions. Thus, we need to build flexible, ...

Keywords: Scalability, Self-organization, Bio-inspired Models, Peer-to-Peer Systems, Honeycomb Structure

Distributed environments hosting specific and dedicated computing resources are serving nowadays more and more scientific and commercial applications. Finding the right resource in distributed environments in term of performance is not an obvious task. ...

Keywords: Reputation, Distributed Environments, Web Services, Workflow, BPEL

Nowadays, the Service-Oriented Distributed Systems are de facto platforms for service providers exposing functionalities to external clients. This type of environments allows distributed deployments of web services with the same functionality to multiple ...

Keywords: SOA, Grid, Performance, Price, QoS, Reputation, Recommender System, STP, XTP, SLA

In urban environments nowadays there are a multitude of mobile devices that have several ways of communicating with each other, which become more and more powerful and used in every day activity. The most important characteristic of these devices is ...

Keywords: VANET, OSGi, middleware, services, data processing

The open and decentralized nature of a peer-to-peer network makes it susceptible to intruders and malicious peers. As a result, it is required to offer a mechanism to rank the participants and to moderate the interactions between them according to this ...

Keywords: Decentralized Networks, P2P, Trust Management, Anonymity, Reputation

Optimization of the task scheduling represent one of the most important open issues of large scale distributed systems. Generally, the overall performance of a distributed system is highly influenced by the quality of the scheduling solution. This paper ...

Keywords: Scheduling, Distributed Systems, Evolutionary Algorithms

The scheduling process in large scale distributed systems (LSDS) became more important due to increases in the number of users and applications. This paper presents a dynamic meta-scheduling architecture model for LSDS based on monitoring. ...

Keywords: MAS, agent-based systems, dynamic scheduling, grid scheduling, large scale distributed systems, metascheduling, modelling, monitoring, multi-agent systems, resource allocation, task allocation

Peer-to-peer systems are highly dynamic systems, with permanent changes in their configurations, as peers may join and leave the system with no restriction or control. This makes monitoring an important element for several applications, especially for ...

Keywords: Monitoring System, Gossiping, Epidemic Protocols, Large-Scale Distributed Systems