The dynamics of collective sorting robot-like ants and ant-like robots
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Flexible update propagation for weakly consistent replication
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Search and replication in unstructured peer-to-peer networks
SIGMETRICS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Formation of an ant cemetery: swarm intelligence or statistical accident?
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A model for web services discovery with QoS
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Routing Indices For Peer-to-Peer Systems
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
A peer-to-peer approach to resource location in Grid environments
Grid resource management
Future Generation Computer Systems
Interest-aware information dissemination in small-world communities
HPDC '05 Proceedings of the High Performance Distributed Computing, 2005. HPDC-14. Proceedings. 14th IEEE International Symposium
Construction of a Peer-to-Peer Information System in Grids
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
From content distribution networks to content networks - issues and challenges
Computer Communications
QoS-Based service selection and ranking with trust and reputation management
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
Globus toolkit version 4: software for service-oriented systems
NPC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP international conference on Network and Parallel Computing
An agent based semi-informed protocol for resource discovery in grids
ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part IV
Pheromone learning for self-organizing agents
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Reorganization and discovery of grid information with epidemic tuning
Future Generation Computer Systems
A dynamic data replication strategy using access-weights in data grids
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Distributed semantic document retrieval using O-FCN
Future Generation Computer Systems
FIRE: A File Reunion Based Data Replication Strategy for Data Grids
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
A Read-Only Distributed Hash Table
Journal of Grid Computing
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This paper proposes a bio-inspired approach tailored to the construction of a Grid information system in which content, specifically metadata descriptors that specify the characteristics of Grid resources, is disseminated and logically reorganized on the Grid. Content management is achieved through the collective activity of a large number of ant-like agents, which perform simple operations at the local level, but together engender an advanced form of ''swarm intelligence'' at the global level. Agents travel the Grid through P2P interconnections and use probability functions to (i) replicate resource descriptors and (ii) collect similar descriptors in nearby Grid hosts. Simulation analysis shows that the proposed ARMAP protocol (Ant-based Replication and MApping Protocol) is capable of reducing the entropy of the system and efficiently propagating content. Furthermore, ARMAP allows to enforce the dissemination of descriptors related to high Quality of Service (QoS) resources. The Grid information system built with the proposed protocol enables the use of a semi-informed discovery algorithm which drives query messages towards ''representative peers'' that maintain information about high QoS resources having the required characteristics.