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
ICS '02 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Supercomputing
Replication strategies in unstructured peer-to-peer networks
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Probabilistic Reliable Dissemination in Large-Scale Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Scalable, Efficient Range Queries for Grid Information Services
P2P '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Scalable Timers for Soft State Protocols
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Routing Indices For Peer-to-Peer Systems
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Improving Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Adaptive Probabilistic Search for Peer-to-Peer Networks
P2P '03 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
A peer-to-peer approach to resource location in Grid environments
Grid resource management
The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
Adaptive Approach to Information Dissemination in Self-Organizing Grids
ICAS '06 Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
QoS-based dissemination of content in Grids
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)
Pheromone learning for self-organizing agents
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
The organic grid: self-organizing computation on a peer-to-peer network
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Towards a Self-structured Grid: An Ant-Inspired P2P Algorithm
Transactions on Computational Systems Biology X
Power-efficient epidemic information dissemination in sensor networks
BADS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Bio-inspired algorithms for distributed systems
A swarm algorithm for a self-structured P2P information system
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Injecting power-awareness into epidemic information dissemination in sensor networks
Future Generation Computer Systems
Handling dynamics in diffusive aggregation schemes: An evaporative approach
Future Generation Computer Systems
Use of the TRIPOD overlay network for resource discovery
Future Generation Computer Systems
A self-organizing P2P framework for collective service discovery
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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This paper examines a multi-agent approach to spatially sort and discovery information about the resources offered by a Grid. Agents, whose behavior is inspired by ant colonies, replicate and distribute resource descriptors according to the class to which the corresponding resources belong. This facilitates resource discovery operations: query messages are attracted towards hosts that store information about a large number of resources having the required characteristics. The presented reorganization and discovery protocols feature self-organization and decentralization characteristics, since operations are performed only on the basis of local information. Agents can either replicate or simply relocate resource descriptors. These two operation modes are aimed, respectively, at fostering the dissemination or the reorganization of information. The balance between these two objectives can be modulated by setting the parameter of an ant-inspired pheromone mechanism. Balance can be static, i. e., decided a priori, or dynamic, in the case that user and network requirements change with time. In the latter case, an ''epidemic'' mechanism is used to communicate the value of this parameter to the hosts and agents of the Grid. Simulation analysis confirms the effectiveness of the reorganization and discovery protocols and of the mentioned epidemic tuning mechanism.