Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides students and IT professionals
with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network …

Self-organizing software systems are an increasingly attractive approach to highly
distributed, decentralized, dynamic applications. In some domains (such as the Internet), the …

There is tremendous interest in exploiting smartphones as a “community of sensors”. It is
envisioned that this community-driven smartphone sensor network has unprecedented …

Random scale-free overlay topologies provide a number of properties like for example high
resilience against failures of random nodes, small (average) diameter as well as good …

Many large-scale utility computing infrastructures comprise heterogeneous hardware and
software resources. This raises the need for scalable resource selection services that …

When dealing with dynamic large-scale topologies such as those underlying Peer-to-Peer
(P2P) Distributed Virtual Environments (DVEs), one inescapably reaches the point where …

Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments have recently grown popular, and commercial
virtual online worlds like Second Life or World of Warcraft attract a lot of attention. In this …

Distributed applications break down when the underlying system has too many node or
communication failures. In this paper, we propose a general approach to building distributed …

Attempts by the research community to meet the expectations arising from dependable and
scalable networking capabilities in Future Internet, specially in terms of native Quality of …

De plus en plus d'applications sont construites à base de services et exécutées dans des
environnements large échelle, dynamiques et distribués. La notion de" cloud" est souvent …