eprintid: 1648 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 30 dir: disk0/00/00/16/48 datestamp: 2013-07-26 13:33:22 lastmod: 2013-07-26 13:33:22 status_changed: 2013-07-26 13:33:22 type: monograph metadata_visibility: no_search creators_name: Sebastio, Stefano creators_name: Amoretti, Michele creators_name: Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto creators_id: stefano.sebastio@imtlucca.it creators_id: creators_id: alberto.lluch@imtlucca.it title: A Computational Field Framework for Collaborative Task Execution in Volunteer Clouds ispublished: unpub subjects: QA75 divisions: CSA full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper abstract: 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. date: 2013-07-26 date_type: published institution: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca citation: Sebastio, Stefano and Amoretti, Michele and Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto A Computational Field Framework for Collaborative Task Execution in Volunteer Clouds. Working Paper (Unpublished) document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1648/1/ucc2013.pdf