With the growth of data volumes and variety of Internet applications, data centers (DCs) have
become an efficient and promising infrastructure for supporting data storage, and providing …

Distributed data aggregation is an important task, allowing the decentralized determination
of meaningful global properties, which can then be used to direct the execution of other …

Progress of research efforts in a novel technology is contingent on having a rigorous
organization of its knowledge domain and a comprehensive understanding of all the …

Autonomic network management is a promising approach to reduce the cost and the
complexity of managing network infrastructures. It attempts to lead the human administrator …

Aggregation of data values plays an important role on distributed computations, in particular,
over peer-to-peer and sensor networks, as it can provide a summary of some global system …

We address the problem of dynamic resource management for a large-scale cloud
environment. Our contribution includes outlining a distributed middleware architecture and …

The pervasiveness of Internet of Things devices in techno-socio-economic domains such as
Smart Cities and Smart Grids results in a massive scale of data about our society. Decision …

Resource management poses particular challenges in large-scale systems, such as server
clusters that simultaneously process requests from a large number of clients. A resource …

Peer-sampling protocols constitute a fundamental mechanism for a number of large-scale
distributed applications. The recent introduction of WebRTC facilitated the deployment of …

Recently, gossip algorithms have received much attention from the wireless sensor network
community due to their simplicity, scalability and robustness. Motivated by applications such …