@techreport{eprints1651,
           month = {August},
            year = {2013},
     institution = {IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca},
            type = {Working Paper},
           title = {A Computational Field Framework for Collaborative Task Execution in Volunteer Clouds},
          author = {Stefano Sebastio and Michele Amoretti and Alberto Lluch-Lafuente},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1651/},
        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.}
}