%0 Report
%9 Working Paper
%A Sebastio, Stefano
%A Amoretti, Michele
%A Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto
%D 2013
%F eprints:1651
%I IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
%T A Computational Field Framework for Collaborative Task Execution in Volunteer Clouds
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1651/
%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.