—Reputation mechanisms are essential for online transactions, where the parties have little prior experience with one another. This is especially true when transactions result in...
Existing empirical studies of Internet structure and path properties indicate that the Internet is tree-like. This work quantifies the degree to which at least two important Inte...
Partitioning constitutes one of the most critical challenges a distributed virtual environment needs to handle and is related to the efficient assignment of the existing entities ...
Christos Bouras, Eri Giannaka, Thrasyvoulos Tsiats...
The task management is a key point in grid applications and can highly influence their efficiency. There are many solutions that we can classify according to their centralizatio...
The OTIS-Network (also referred to as two-level swapped network) is composed of n clones of an n-node original network constituting its clusters. It has received much attention due...