Volunteer economies

Volunteer computing

The explosive growth of interest in platform-independent programming languages for the WorldWide Web , such as Sun Microsystems' Java, is opening exciting new possibilites in parallel computing. This thesis will present and investigate the idea of volunteer computing, which will allow people to volunteer their computers' processing power towards solving a large parallel problem by simply visiti...

Volunteer Monitoring

Running Head: VOLUNTEER COMPUTING GAMES Volunteer Computing Games: Merging Online Casual Gaming with Volunteer Computing

We describe volunteer computing games, a new paradigm for computing which merges volunteer computing and online casual games. In volunteer computing, the main goal is to harness the computational power of many users’ computers to solve a large computational problem. Unfortunately, participants in volunteer computing come from a very limited demographic—primarily middle-aged male computer expert...

Trusted Volunteer Computing

Technology becomes more and more advanced everyday, both from the software and from the hardware perspective. Brand new devices, more powerful and capable of the generation preceding them, are steadily released. Everybody owns laptops, smartphones and many other devices with great compute capabilities, able to easily solve problems a few years ago considered almost impossible. These devices are...

Personal Volunteer Computing

Since the 1990s, the number of personal computing devices has exploded. Today we collectively own billions of devices whose computing resources are underused the majority of the time. These resources are either time-consuming to leverage or not supported by othermainstream distributed computing approaches. We propose to revisit volunteer computing, where volunteers from around the world contrib...