The use of utility on-demand computing infrastructures, such as Amazon's Elastic Clouds [1],
is a viable solution to speed lengthy parallel computing problems to those without access to …

In software service provision, the overall performance of a composite service is often the
ultimate focus of concern rather than those of its individual components. This opens new …

Effective load distribution is of great importance at grids, which are complex heterogeneous
distributed systems. In this paper we study site allocation scheduling of nonclairvoyant jobs …

Emotional interaction plays an important role in human-computer interaction domains. One
of the major limitations in the study of emotion interaction is the lack of databases. This …

Desktop grid systems and applications have generated significant impacts on science and
engineering. The emerging convergence of grid and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing …

Scheduling and resource management play an important role in building complex
distributed systems, such as grids. In this article we study the impact on performance of job …

MapReduce (MR) has become a de facto standard for large-scale data analysis. Moreover, it
has also attracted the attention of the HPC community due to its simplicity, efficiency and …

UnaCloud is an opportunistic based cloud infrastructure (IaaS) that allows to access on-
demand computing capabilities using commodity desktops. Although UnaCloud maximizes …

There are increasingly more computing problems requiring lengthy parallel computations.
For those without access to current cluster or grid infrastructures, a recent and proven viable …

In this paper, we explore the problem of scheduling multiple concurrent Bag-of-Tasks (BoT)
applications in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) volunteer desktop grids built around a super …