After my nonsense about Use cases and reputation systems for cross, KK gave a great presentation on the sharing protocol proposal that he has picked up and run with in a great way. I'll link to his updated work ASAP.
Praveen presented Junsoek's lab's work in integrating the BMP with the Globus architecture.
Ozlem is in the middle of presenting an alternative to DRM through copy monitoring. She is proposing a fingerprint machine learning algorithm (the main content of her research) to work to solve towards this problem for textual works.
The work has a good plagarism detection systems qualities as well.
It strikes me that if this could be expanded to assess music similarities then it could be very helpful for rules based communities such as FurtherNet. or assessing the whether the creative commons licences are been followed.
Hongfei from MIT Sloan is presenting on "Virtual Enterprises and Grid Computing". Virtual enterprises are a perfect example of a situation of community resource sharing. This is especially interesting because Andreas' work is on Virtual Enterprises and one of his findings is that they have highly heterogeneous environments and only use the very basic common standards.
Osh from MIT Sloan.
"Challenges and Business Implications of the Commerical Grid"
Osh is working on cool work involving commercial business models for processor cycle markets. She is considered price points for access and models for charging - flat rate is difficult but she is leaning towards auction and barter models where the customer typically names a price ((not sure how this differs from a normal market)). She is also presenting a good list of requirements for having a market in Grid resources: Resource Owners maintain control, Cleinet preference specification. Emerging of Utility provider (on-demand), Service-Centric (ASP model). Moveing the complexity of IT off the small businesses.
Madhev, of Nortel and MIT Sloan is presenting on "Wireless Grids and Education in Developing Environments" He is looking at questions of Digital Divides and thinking about how resource sharing may help in developing economies - limited funding, centralised resources due to their cost - but distributed access. Mahdev express his belief that
Bor-rong Chen of Tufts Computer Science is now talking and presenting his excellemnt research into the energy conditions of different routing situations. I'm not clear how they are modelling the power requirements in ns-2. i guess you define a function for how to track the power requirements. of each of the states of the state machine. ooooh now we have wonderful movement graphics of the alrogithmsn of movement that they need.
These simulations are quite complex - many assumptions but they have some significant results. You have to think about patterns of movement, patterns of traffic and patterns of RF interference.
Diana Anuis is working on the "Technology and Politics of a carribean wireless grid" Far-fetched? Leapfrogging technologies is a well known philosophy.
Can developing nations pool their capacities? Particularly healthcare and internet access as well as education. She is working with TRITEC and the telecom city project to engage with honors high school students to build test cases and to teach them about the research process. She is examining the policy dimension in two regional state's organisations. Eastern Carribean and Southern Africa.
Posted by james at May 9, 2003 02:29 PM