Small-world networks, distributed hash tables and the e-resource discovery problem
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2010
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Massey University
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Abstract
Resource discovery is one of the most important underpinning problems behind producing a scalable,
robust and efficient global infrastructure for e-Science. A number of approaches to the resource discovery
and management problem have been made in various computational grid environments and prototypes
over the last decade. Computational resources and services in modern grid and cloud environments can be
modelled as an overlay network superposed on the physical network structure of the Internet and World
Wide Web. We discuss some of the main approaches to resource discovery in the context of the general
properties of such an overlay network. We present some performance data and predicted properties based
on algorithmic approaches such as distributed hash table resource discovery and management. We describe
a prototype system and use its model to explore some of the known key graph aspects of the global
resource overlay network - including small-world and scale-free properties.
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Resource discovery, Semantic metadata, Metadata, Semantic web, Cloud computing, Distributed hash tables
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Leist, A., Hawick, K.A. (2010), Small-world networks, distributed hash tables and the e-resource discovery problem, Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 14, 1-16