%X The increasing diffusion of cloud technologies is opening new opportunities for distributed and collaborative computing. Volunteer clouds are a prominent example, where participants join and leave the platform and collaborate by sharing their computational resources. The high dynamism and unpredictability of such scenarios call for decentralized self-* approaches to guarantee QoS. We present a simulation framework for collaborative task execution in volunteer clouds and propose one concrete instance based on Ant Colony Optimization, which is validated through a set of simulation experiments based on Google workload data.
%A Stefano Sebastio
%A Michele Amoretti
%A Alberto Lluch-Lafuente
%L eprints1648
%T A Computational Field Framework for Collaborative Task Execution in Volunteer Clouds
%I IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
%D 2013