The Distributed Systems group is currently working on economics oriented distributed systems, particularly on resource allocation mechanisms for Grid and peer-to-peer, on decentralized systems applied to Ambient Networks, and on applications supporting cooperative learning (CSCL).  The projects and publications links below lead to fuller information about this and other work in the group.

Publications: 

• Journal articles, 
• Conference papers and presentations,
• Book chapters.

People:

Lecturers:

Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro Moldes, M. Angélica Reyes Muñoz, Joan Manuel Marquès i Puig (part time).

Lecturers and PhD students:

Pau Artigas Vidal, Pablo Chacín Martínez, Sanjeevan Kanapathipillai, Roc Messeguer Pallares.

Research students:

Isaac Chao Andrade, Xavier León Gutiérrez, Fernando Rodríguez Haro.

Past members:

Projects:

• Catnets
  Economic algorithms for resource allocation.
• SORMA
  Development of methods and tools for an efficient market-based allocation of resources, through a self-organizing resource management system, using market-driven models supported by extensions for Grid infrastructures.
• Grid4All
  Grid4All aims at enabling domestic users, non-profit organisations such as schools, and small enterprises, to share their resources and to access massive Grid resources when needed, envisioning a future in which access to resources is democratised, readily available, cooperative, and inexpensive.

Software: