Toward a Quality-of-Service Framework for Peer-to-Peer Applications
P2P networks have caught the imagination of the research community and application developers with their sheer scalability and fault-tolerance characteristics. However, only content-sharing applications based on the P2P concept have reached the desired ...
MaGate: An Interoperable, Decentralized and Modular High-Level Grid Scheduler
This work presents the design and architecture of a decentralized grid scheduler named MaGate, which is developed within the SmartGRID project and focuses on grid scheduler interoperation. The MaGate scheduler is modular structured, and emphasizes the ...
A Grid-Aware Emergency Response Model G-AERM for Disaster Management
The emergency management community is working toward developments associated with the reduction of losses in lives, property and the environment caused by natural disasters. However, several limitations with the particular collaborative nature of ...
A Mathematical Analysis of a Disaster Management Data-Grid Push Service
Much work is under way within the Grid technology community on issues associated with the development of services fostering the integration and exploitation of multiple autonomous, distributed data sources through a seamless and flexible virtualized ...
Collaborative e-Learning and ICT Tools to Develop SME Managers: An Italian Case
Small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs create a dynamic and successful European economy. Existing skill deficiencies in sales, management and administrative staff are adversely affecting competitiveness in almost a third of those small firms surveyed ...