Motivation Scientists increasingly rely on intelligent information systems to help them in their
daily tasks, in particular for managing research objects, like publications or datasets. The …

Web-based distributed volunteer computing enables scientists to constitute platforms that
can be used for computational tasks by using potentially millions of computers connected to …

Mobile cloud computing is a paradigm that delivers applications to mobile devices by using
cloud computing. In this way, mobile cloud computing allows for a rich user experience; …

In view of the growing presence and popularity of multicore and manycore processors,
accelerators, and coprocessors, as well as clusters using such computing devices, the …

We propose personal volunteer computing, a novel paradigm to encourage technical
solutions that leverage personal devices, such as smartphones and laptops, for personal …

With few exceptions, the field of Machine Learning (ML) research has largely ignored the
browser as a computational engine. Beyond an educational resource for ML, the browser …

In 2019, around 57% of the population of the world has broadband access to the Internet.
Moreover, there are 5.9 billion mobile broadband subscriptions, ie, 1.3 subscriptions per …

The large penetration and continued growth in ownership of personal electronic devices
represents a freely available and largely untapped source of computing power. To leverage …

As most users access the Web from multiple devices with different characteristics, ranging
from powerful desktops or laptops to tablets, mobile phones or watches and cars, liquid Web …

Computers connected to internet represent an immense computing power, mostly unused by
their owners. One way to utilize this public resource is via world wide web, where users can …