Cloud computing is becoming a popular solution for storing data and executing applications
due to its on-demand pay-per-use policy that allows access to virtually unlimited resources …

What do I need to say to convince you to do something? This is an important question for an
autonomous agent deciding whom to approach for a resource or for an action to be done …

Desktop grid systems have already established their identity in the area of distributed
systems. They are well suited for High Throughput Computing especially for Bag-of-Tasks …

Energy efficiency and high computing power are basic design considerations across
modern-day computing solutions due to different concerns such as system performance …

The analysis of the predictability of human behaviour is an emerging topic in the ubiquitous
computing community. Recent endeavours in studying the human behaviour are either …

The InteGrade project is a multi-university effort to build a novel grid computing middleware
based on the opportunistic use of resources belonging to user workstations. The InteGrade …

Abstract Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (DGVCSs) are approaches of
distributed systems aimed at the provision of large scale computing infrastructures to support …

How do I choose whom to delegate a task to? This is an important question for an
autonomous agent collaborating with others to solve a problem. Were similar proposals …

Opportunistic grid computing middleware has as a main concern the need to preserve the
performance of the local applications running on machines that donate resources to the grid …

Advanced reservation has been used in grid environments to provide quality of service
(QoS) and to guarantee resources available at the execution time. However, in grid …