Collection

Large Scale Cooperative Virtual Environments

Submission status
Closed
The huge diffusion of distributed networked cooperative applications is due to the recent advances in the area of networking. Several novel applications have emerged in this area: social networks, distributed cryptocurrencies, distributed ledgers, collaborative work and many other ones. In particular, an interesting technology recently adopted to handle cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin) is the blockchain technology, that has now taken the more general role to handle several distributed applications. Furthermore, peer to peer, Internet of Things, Smartcities, distributed sensing are examples of modern ICT paradigms that aim to describe globally cooperative infrastructures built upon objects’ intelligence and self-configuring capabilities. The definition of these applications requires to afford several challenges, like the design of user interfaces, coordination protocols, and proper middle-ware and architectures. The aim of this special issue is to investigate open challenges for such applications, related to both the applications design and to the definition of proper supports. Some important challenges are, for instance, adaptation of the classical blockchain technology to support collaborative applications, protocols design, distributed consensus algorithms, privacy and security issues. The special issue includes six high-quality papers, two of them are extended versions of the papers accepted and presented at the 5th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P held in conjunction with EUROPAR 2017, Santiago De Compostela, August 2017.

Editors

  • Laura Ricci Laura Ricci , 

    Laura Ricci

    Laura Ricci is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy. Her research interests include blockchains, cryptocurrencies, peer-to-peer networks, and social networks. In these fields, she has co-authored 150+ papers published in international journals and conference/workshop proceedings. She has served as program committee member and chair of several conferences. She is the Section Editor of Springer Nature, SN Computer Science, Section V, Innovations in Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers and member of the editorial board of the journal Blockchain: Research and Applications.

  • Radu Prodan Radu Prodan  &

    Radu Prodan

    Radu Prodan is a professor in distributed systems at ITEC, University of Klagenfurt. Austria. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Vienna University of Technology and was an associate professor until 2018 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is interested in performance, optimization, and resource management tools for parallel and distributed systems. He participated in numerous national and European projects and coordinated, among others, the Horizon 2020 project ARTICONF. He co-authored over 200 publications and received two IEEE best paper awards.

  • Alexandru Iosup Alexandru Iosup

    Alexandru Iosup

    Alexandru Iosup received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2009 from TU Delft, the Netherlands. He is currently an University Research Professor with the Computer Systems dept. at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, an Associate Professor with the Parallel and Distributed Systems group at TU Delft, and the Chair of the SPEC Research Cloud Group. He has been awarded the yearly Netherlands Prize for Research in Computer Science (2016), the yearly Netherlands Teacher of the Year (2015), and twice one of the yearly SPECtacular awards by the SPEC industry-wide standardization body (2012-2014).

Articles (11 in this collection)

  2. EDITORIAL

    Authors

    • Laura Ricci
    • Alexandru Iosup
    • Radu Prodan
    • Content type: EditorialNotes
    • Published: 11 March 2019
    • Pages: 1 - 2

  3. A Journey into Bitcoin Metadata

    Authors

    • Massimo Bartoletti
    • Bryn Bellomy
    • Livio Pompianu
    • Content type: OriginalPaper
    • Published: 28 January 2019
    • Pages: 3 - 22