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Volume 6, Number 1, March, 2005
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 2005
Volume 6, Number 3, September, 2005
Volume 6, Number 4, December, 2005
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 2006
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 2006
Volume 7, Number 3, September, 2006
Volume 7, Number 4, December, 2006
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 2007
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 2007
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 2007
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 2007
Volume 9, Number 1, March, 2008
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 2008
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 2008
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 2008
Volume 10, Number 1, March, 2009
Volume 10, Number 2, June, 2009
Volume 10, Number 3, September, 2009
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 2009
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 2010
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 2010
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 2010
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 2010
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 2011
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 2011
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 2011
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 2011
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 2012
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 2012
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 2012
Volume 13, Number 4, 2012
Volume 14, Number 1, 2013
Volume 14, Number 2, 2013
Volume 14, Number 3, 2013
Volume 14, Number 4, 2013
Volume 15, Number 1, 2014
Volume 15, Number 2, 2014
Volume 15, Number 3, 2014
Volume 15, Number 4, 2014
Volume 16, Number 1, 2015
Volume 16, Number 2, 2015
Volume 16, Number 3, 2015
Volume 16, Number 4, 2015
Volume 17, Number 1, 2016
Volume 17, Number 2, 2016
Volume 17, Number 3, 2016
Volume 17, Number 4, 2016
Volume 18, Number 1, 2017
Volume 18, Number 2, 2017
Volume 18, Number 3, 2017
Volume 18, Number 4, 2017
Volume 19, Number 1, 2018
Volume 19, Number 2, 2018
Volume 19, Number 3, 2018
Volume 19, Number 4, 2018
Volume 20, Number 1, 2019
Volume 20, Number 2, 2019
Volume 20, Number 3, 2019


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 6, Number 1, March, 2005

               Wolfgang Hoschek   Enabling Rich Service and Resource
                                  Discovery with a Database for Dynamic
                                  Distributed Content  . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
                Keith Power and   
               John P. Morrison   Ad Hoc Metacomputing with Compeer  . . . 17--32
           John P. Morrison and   
            Philip D. Healy and   
             David A. Power and   
                 Keith J. Power   The Role of XML Within the WebCom
                                  Metacomputing Platform . . . . . . . . . 33--43
           Georges Da Costa and   
                Richard Olivier   Impact of Realistic Workload in
                                  Peer-to-Peer Systems a Case Study:
                                  Freenet  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--56
                 Eddy Caron and   
Frédéric Desprez and   
   Frédéric Suter   Parallel Extension of a Dynamic
                                  Performance Forecasting Tool . . . . . . 57--69
            Robert Harakaly and   
             Pascale Primet and   
         Franck Bonnassieux and   
               Benjamin Gaidioz   Probes Coordination Protocol for Network
                                  Performance Measurement in GRID
                                  Computing Environment  . . . . . . . . . 71--80
                Danny Weyns and   
                Eddy Truyen and   
               Pierre Verbaeten   Serialization of Distributed Threads in
                                  Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--98
             Valerie Fiolet and   
                Bernard Toursel   Distributed Data Mining  . . . . . . . . 99--109
           Maciej Gawinecki and   
               Minor Gordon and   
            Pawel Kaczmarek and   
               Marcin Paprzycki   The Problem of Agent-Client
                                  Communication on the Internet  . . . . . 111--123
                   Jongwook Woo   Static Analysis for Java with Alias
                                  Representation Reference-Set in
                                  High-Performance Computing . . . . . . . 125--139
               Dan Grigoras and   
           John P. Morrison and   
               Marcin Paprzycki   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Internet-Based Computing . . . . . . . . iii--iii
               Marcin Paprzycki   Instead of the Editorial . . . . . . . . ii--ii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 2005

                  Nam Thoai and   
                   Jens Volkert   An approach to providing small-waiting
                                  time during debugging message-passing
                                  programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
        Róbert Lovas and   
        Péter Kacsuk and   
 Ákos Horváth and   
   András Horányi   Application of $p$-grade development
                                  environment in meteorology . . . . . . . 13--22
               Zoltan Juhas and   
               Arpad Andics and   
          Krisztian Kuntner and   
                  Szabolcs Pota   Towards a Robust and Fault-Tolerant
                                  Multicast Discovery Architecture for
                                  Global Computing Grids . . . . . . . . . 23--33
          Paul Heinzlreiter and   
   Dieter Kranzlmüller and   
                   Jens Volkert   Grid-based Virtual Reality Visualization
                                  of Volume Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--44
Balázs Polgár and   
       Endre Selényi and   
            Tamás Bartha   On the Extension and Applicability of
                                  the $P$-Graph Modeling Paradigm to
                                  System-Level Diagnostic Problems . . . . 45--57
  Károly Bósa and   
             Wolfgang Schreiner   Tolerating Stop Failures in Distributed
                                  Maple  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70
              Alois Ferscha and   
                 Simon Vogl and   
                  Wolfgang Beer   Context Sensing, Aggregation,
                                  Representation and Exploitation in
                                  Wireless Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81
  Balázs Goldschmidt and   
               Roland Tusch and   
László Böszörményi   A CORBA-based Middleware for an Adaptive
                                  Streaming Server . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--92
              Peter Schojer and   
László Böszörményi and   
             Hermann Hellwagner   An Adaptive Standard Meta-data Aware
                                  Proxy Cache  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--104
        Zsolt Németh and   
   Dieter Kranzlmüller and   
        Péter Kacsuk and   
                   Jens Volkert   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Distributed and Parallel Systems . . . . v--v
                   Omer F. Rana   Editorial: Building Grid Communities . . iii--iv

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 6, Number 3, September, 2005

              Eduardo Huedo and   
    Rubén S. Montero and   
 Ignacio Martín Llorente   The GridWay Framework for Adaptive
                                  Scheduling and Execution on Grids  . . . 1--8
              Douglas Thain and   
                    Miron Livny   Parrot: Transparent User-Level
                                  Middleware for Data-Intensive Computing  9--18
         Rob van Nieuwpoort and   
              Jason Maassen and   
             Thilo Kielmann and   
                   Henri E. Bal   Satin: Simple and Efficient Java-based
                                  Grid Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--32
                George Kola and   
               Tevfik Kosar and   
                    Miron Livny   Run-time Adaptation of Grid Data
                                  Placement Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43
            Gabriel Antoniu and   
           Luc Bougé and   
                    Mathieu Jan   JuxMem: An Adaptive Supportive Platform
                                  for Data Sharing on the Grid . . . . . . 45--55
        Hans-Christian Hege and   
              Andrei Hutanu and   
           Ralf Kähler and   
               Andre Merzky and   
               Thomas Radke and   
              Edward Seidel and   
                   Brygg Ullmer   Progressive Retrieval and Hierarchical
                                  Visualization of Large Remote Data . . . 57--66
            Takashi Hoshino and   
              Kenjiro Taura and   
              Takashi Chikayama   An Adaptive File Distribution Algorithm
                                  for Wide Area Network  . . . . . . . . . 67--84
               Martin Swany and   
                    Rich Wolski   Network Scheduling for Computational
                                  Grid Environments  . . . . . . . . . . . 85--94
           G. von Laszewski and   
              B. K. Alunkal and   
                   I. Veljkovic   Toward Reputable Grids . . . . . . . . . 95--106
         Reynaldo C. Novaes and   
           Paulo Roisenberg and   
               Roque Scheer and   
            Caio Northfleet and   
              J. H. Jornada and   
                 Walfredo Cirne   Non-Dedicated Distributed Environment: A
                                  Solution for Safe and Continuous
                                  Exploitation of Idle Cycles  . . . . . . 107--115
                     Dana Petcu   Editorial: Challenges Concerning
                                  Symbolic Computations on Grids . . . . . iii--iv
              Wilson Rivera and   
                      J. Seguel   Guest Editors' Introduction  . . . . . . v--v

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 6, Number 4, December, 2005

             Anne Beno\^\it and   
                Murray Cole and   
            Stephen Gilmore and   
                  Jane Hillston   Evaluating the performance of
                                  pipeline-structured parallel programs
                                  with skeletons and process algebra . . . 1--16
            Stephen Gilmore and   
          Kenneth MacKenzie and   
             Nicholas Wolverson   Extending resource-bounded functional
                                  programming languages with mutable state
                                  and concurrency  . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--30
                Joel Falcou and   
                  Jocelyn Serot   E.V.E., An Object Oriented SIMD Library  31--42
    Frédéric Gava   External Memory in Bulk-Synchronous
                                  Parallel ML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--70
               Franck Pommereau   Petri nets as Executable Specifications
                                  of High-Level Timed Parallel Systems . . 71--82
               Omer F. Rana and   
                  Line Pouchard   Agent Based Semantic Grids: Research
                                  Issues and Challenges  . . . . . . . . . 83--94
                   Xiao Qin and   
                 Hong Jiang and   
                 Yifeng Zhu and   
               David R. Swanson   A Feedback Control Mechanism for
                                  Balancing I/O- and Memory-Intensive
                                  Applications on Clusters . . . . . . . . 95--107
Frédéric Loulergue   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 2006

               Donal O'Kane and   
            G. M. P. O'Hare and   
                David Marsh and   
                  Song Shen and   
                  Richard Tynan   Agents Go Traveling  . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
                Yinglong Ma and   
                Beihong Jin and   
                  Mingquan Zhou   Exploiting Shared Ontology with Default
                                  Information for Web Agents . . . . . . . 11--22
            D. G. A. Mobach and   
           B. J. Overeinder and   
               F. M. T. Brazier   A WS-Agreement Based Resource
                                  Negotiation Framework for Mobile Agents  23--36
                  Giacomo Cabri   Agent Composition via Role-based
                                  Infrastructures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--47
               Maria Ganzha and   
        Wojciech Kuranowski and   
               Marcin Paprzycki   Software agents in support of student
                                  mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
            Joseph C. Jacob and   
           James B. Collier and   
          Loring G. Craymer and   
            David W. Curkendall   yourSkyG: Large-Scale Astronomical Image
                                  Mosaicking on the Information Power Grid 59--75
          Brian J. d'Auriol and   
                  Maria Beltran   A Historical Analysis of Fiber Based
                                  Optical Bus Parallel Computing Models    77--93
                 Shahram Rahimi   Editorial: Toward a Performance
                                  Evaluation Methodology for the
                                  Pi-Calculus Family of Formal Modeling
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii
             Shahram Rahimi and   
                   Raheel Ahmad   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Software Agent Technology  . . . . . . . v--v

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 2006

              Olaf Bonorden and   
          Joachim Gehweiler and   
  Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide   A Web Computing Environment for Parallel
                                  Algorithms in Java . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                 Dana Petcu and   
              Daniel Vizman and   
               Marcin Paprzycki   Heuristic Load Balancing for CFD Codes
                                  Executed in Heterogeneous Computing
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
               Jose Herrera and   
              Eduardo Huedo and   
    Rubén S. Montero and   
 Ignacio Martín Llorente   Benchmarking of a Joint IRISGrid/EGEE
                                  Testbed with a Bioinformatics
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34
           Simone A. Ludwig and   
               Omer F. Rana and   
             William Naylor and   
                  Julian Padget   Mathematical Service Discovery:
                                  Architecture, Implementation and
                                  Performance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--52
            Ha\"\iscam Abdallah   Parallel Implementation of
                                  Uniformization to Compute the Transient
                                  Solution of Stochastic Automata Networks 53--64
            Devaraya Prabhu and   
            Bill P. Buckles and   
             Frederick E. Petry   A SIMD Environment for Genetic
                                  Algorithms with Interconnected
                                  Subpopulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--86
              Norman Scaife and   
            Greg Michaelson and   
               Susumu Horiguchi   Parallel Standard ML with Skeletons  . . 87--92
                   Kai Wang and   
                  Jun Zhang and   
                       Chi Shen   A Class of Parallel Multilevel Sparse
                                  Approximate Inverse Preconditioners for
                                  Sparse Linear Systems  . . . . . . . . . 93--106
                    Ami Marowka   Book Review: \em Parallel Scientific
                                  Computation: A Structured Approach using
                                  BSP and MPI  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
       Przemyslaw Stpiczy\'nski   Introduction to the special issue: Large
                                  Scale Computations on Grids  . . . . . . v--v

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 7, Number 3, September, 2006

              Norman Scaife and   
            Greg Michaelson and   
               Susumu Horiguchi   Empirical Parallel Performance
                                  Prediction From Semantics-Based
                                  Profiling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
              A. D. Al Zain and   
          Philip W. Trinder and   
            Greg Michaelson and   
            Hans-Wolfgang Loidl   Managing Heterogeneity in a Grid
                                  Parallel Haskell . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--25
                 Yang Zhang and   
                 Edward A. Luke   Dynamic Memory Management in the Loci
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--37
                     Dana Petcu   A Parallel Rule-based System and Its
                                  Experimental Usage in Membrane Computing 39--49
         M. E. Gómez and   
            P. López and   
                       J. Duato   An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Routing
                                  Strategy for Tori and Meshes . . . . . . 51--59
                 J. Buisson and   
            F. André and   
                    J.-L. Pazat   Afpac: Enforcing consistency during the
                                  adaptation of a parallel component . . . 61--73
          Padraig J. O'Dowd and   
               Adarsh Patil and   
               John P. Morrison   WebCom-G and MPICH-G2 Jobs . . . . . . . 75--86
                  Shujun Li and   
           Elise de Doncker and   
                 Karlis Kaugars   Pion: A Problem Solving Environment for
                                  Parallel Multivariate Integration  . . . 87--94
                Amy W. Apon and   
          Gregory E. Monaco and   
             Gordon K. Springer   The Great Plains Network (GPN)
                                  Middleware Test Bed  . . . . . . . . . . 95--108
              Janusz S. Kowalik   Editorial: Quo Vadis Grid Computing  . . i--i
Frédéric Loulergue   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 7, Number 4, December, 2006

              Walter Binder and   
                    Volker Roth   Security Risks in Java-based Mobile Code
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
            Lorenzo Bettini and   
            Rocco De Nicola and   
                 Michele Loreti   Implementing Mobile and Distributed
                                  Applications in X-Klaim  . . . . . . . . 13--35
         Raffaele Quitadamo and   
           Letizia Leonardi and   
                  Giacomo Cabri   Leveraging strong agent mobility for
                                  Aglets with the Mobile JikesRVM
                                  framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--51
                     Luc Moreau   A Fault-Tolerant Directory Service for
                                  Mobile Agents based on Forwarding
                                  Pointers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--87
           B. J. Overeinder and   
          D. R. A. de Groot and   
        N. J. E. Wijngaards and   
               F. M. T. Brazier   Generative Mobile Agent Migration in
                                  Heterogeneous Environments . . . . . . . 89--99
                Volker Roth and   
                 Jan Peters and   
                Ulrich Pinsdorf   A Distributed Content-Based Search
                                  Engine Based on Mobile Code and Web
                                  Service Technology . . . . . . . . . . . 101--117
                   Raheel Ahmad   Book Review: \em Expert Systems:
                                  Principles and Programming . . . . . . . 119--119
              Henry Hexmoor and   
           Marcin Paprzycki and   
                  Niranjan Suri   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Software Agent Mobility  . . . . . . . . iii--iii
              Niranjan Suri and   
                  Henry Hexmoor   Editorial: Mobility in Distributed
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 2007

              Marco Alberti and   
           Federico Chesani and   
              Davide Daolio and   
            Marco Gavanelli and   
              Evelina Lamma and   
                Paola Mello and   
                  Paolo Torroni   Specification and Verification of Agent
                                  Interaction Protocols in a Logic-based
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
      Felipe Rech Meneguzzi and   
    Avelino Francisco Zorzo and   
Michael da Costa Móra and   
                   Michael Luck   Incorporating Planning into BDI Systems  15--28
             Sahin Albayrak and   
              Stefan Wollny and   
         Andreas Lommatzsch and   
               Dragan Milosevic   Agent Technology for Personalized
                                  Information Filtering: The PIA System    29--40
              Henry Hexmoor and   
               Brian Mclaughlan   Computationally Adjustable Autonomy  . . 41--48
 Joaquín Peña and   
           Rafael Corchuelo and   
     Antonio Ruiz-Cortés   A Top Down Approach for Describing the
                                  Acquaintance Organisation of Multiagent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--62
                       Yu Zhang   Observation-Based Proactive
                                  Communication in Multi-Agent Teamwork    63--77
           Andrew Lomonosov and   
                 Meera Sitharam   Stability, Optimality and Complexity of
                                  Network Games with Pricing and Player
                                  Dropouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86
             Bengt Carlsson and   
        K. Ingemar Jönsson   The Success of Cooperative Strategies in
                                  the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma and the
                                  Chicken Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--100
      Andreas L. Symeonidis and   
Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou and   
         Dionysios Kehagias and   
             Pericles A. Mitkas   A Multi-agent Infrastructure for
                                  Enhancing ERP system Intelligence  . . . 101--114
          A. Vijay Srinivas and   
                   D. Janakiram   Data Management in Distributed Systems:
                                  A Scalability Taxonomy . . . . . . . . . 115--130
                   Jongwook Woo   Book Review: \em The Comparison of J2EE
                                  and .NET for Enterprise Information
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--140
             Elham S. Khorasani   Book Review: \em Algorithms Sequential &
                                  Parallel: A Unified Approach . . . . . . 141--142
                  Thomas Ludwig   Editorial: Vietnam on its way to High
                                  Performance Computing  . . . . . . . . . i--i
           Marcin Paprzycki and   
                  Niranjan Suri   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Foundational Underpinnings for Pragmatic
                                  Agent-based Systems  . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 2007

           Daniel A. Janies and   
          Pablo A. Goloboff and   
                      Diego Pol   Large-Scale Phylogenetic Analysis for
                                  the Study of Zoonosis and Assessment of
                                  Influenza Surveillance . . . . . . . . . 143--146
                 J. Sanford and   
             J. Baumgardner and   
                  W. Brewer and   
                  P. Gibson and   
                      W. ReMine   Mendel's Accountant: a biologically
                                  realistic forward-time population
                                  genetics program . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--165
             Annkatrin Rose and   
          Eric A. Stahlberg and   
                     Iris Meier   Genome-wide identification and
                                  comparative analysis of coiled-coil
                                  proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--171
             Edward O. List and   
        Darlene E. Berryman and   
           Amanda J. Palmer and   
               Elahu Gosney and   
              Shigeru Okada and   
               Bruce Kelder and   
           Jens Lichtenberg and   
            Lonnie R. Welch and   
               John J. Kopchick   Application of bioinformatics and
                                  scalable computing to perform proteomic
                                  analysis of stomach tissue from diabetic
                                  mice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--183
      Vaishali Vallurupalli and   
                    Carla Purdy   Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of
                                  Biomolecular Reactions . . . . . . . . . 185--196
             Shahram Rahimi and   
        Guruprasad Nagaraja and   
                 Lisa Gandy and   
                   Bidyut Gupta   An Expert System for Analysis of
                                  Consistency Criteria in Checkpointing
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--208
             Shahram Rahimi and   
             Michael Wainer and   
                   Delano Lewis   A Performance and Programming Analysis
                                  of Java Communication Mechanisms in a
                                  Distributed Environment  . . . . . . . . 209--226
                 Yung-Chuan Lee   Book Review: \em Distributed Computing:
                                  Principles and Applications  . . . . . . 227--228
                     Dazhang Gu   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Bioinformatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
                    Art Sedighi   Editorial: Virtualization  . . . . . . . i--ii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 2007

         Emmanuel Jeanvoine and   
              Louis Rilling and   
            Christine Morin and   
                Daniel Leprince   Using Overlay Networks to Build
                                  Operating System Services for Large
                                  Scale Grids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--239
                 Ivan Frain and   
         Abdelaziz M'zoughi and   
              Jean-Paul Bahsoun   How to Achieve High Throughput with
                                  Dynamic Tree-Structured Coterie  . . . . 241--248
        Ricolindo L. Carino and   
                Ioana Banicescu   A tool for a two-level dynamic load
                                  balancing strategy in scientific
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--261
         Miguel O. Bernabeu and   
    Máriam Taroncher and   
Víctor M. García and   
                      Ana Vidal   Robust Parallel Implementation of a
                                  Lanczos-based Algorithm for an
                                  Structured Electromagnetic Eigenvalue
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--270
          Ouissem Ben Fredj and   
            Éric Renault   RWAPI over InfiniBand: Design and
                                  Performance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280
             Keith Rochford and   
              Brian Coghlan and   
                     John Walsh   An Agent-based Approach to Grid Service
                                  Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--290
                  Xinfa Wei and   
                   Kaoru Sezaki   DHR-Trees: A Distributed
                                  Multidimensional Indexing Structure for
                                  P2P Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--300
María M. López and   
              Elisa Heymann and   
                Miquel A. Senar   Sensitivity Analysis of Workflow
                                  Scheduling on Grid Systems . . . . . . . 301--311
               Rocco Aversa and   
       Beniamino Di Martino and   
      Salvatore Venticinque and   
                Nicola Mazzocca   A Mobile Agents based Infrastructure to
                                  deliver value added services in SOAs . . 313--324
             Laura Elnitski and   
                Lonnie R. Welch   Editorial: New Frontiers in
                                  Computational Genomics: Identification
                                  of Novel Functional Elements and
                                  Genome-scale Pattern Analysis  . . . . . i--vii
                     Dana Petcu   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Practical Aspects of Large-Scale
                                  Distributed Computing  . . . . . . . . . vii--vii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 2007

            Marco Aldinucci and   
            Marco Danelutto and   
                 Patrizio Dazzi   MUSKEL: an expandable skeleton
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--341
                 Mark Baker and   
            Bryan Carpenter and   
                    Aamir Shafi   A Buffering Layer to Support Derived
                                  Types and Proprietary Networks for Java
                                  HPC  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--358
             My Chuong Lieu and   
               Siew Kei Lam and   
        Thambipillai Srikanthan   Rapid Area-Time Estimation Technique for
                                  Porting C-based Applications onto FPGA
                                  platforms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--371
                  T. Hauser and   
                    A. Dasu and   
              A. Sudarsanam and   
                       S. Young   Performance of a LU decomposition on a
                                  multi-FPGA system compared to a low
                                  power commodity microprocessor system    373--385
                 Sonia Mota and   
                Eduardo Ros and   
              Francisco de Toro   A computing architecture for correcting
                                  perspective distortion in
                                  motion-detection based visual systems    387--394
              Sadaf R. Alam and   
          Pratul K. Agarwal and   
          Jeffrey S. Vetter and   
               Melissa C. Smith   Throughput Improvement of Molecular
                                  Dynamics Simulations Using
                                  Reconfigurable Computing . . . . . . . . 395--410
              Nazar Abbas Saqib   Complexity Analysis for 4-Input/1-Output
                                  FPGAs Applied to Multiplier Designs  . . 411--422
            Gilbert G. Chen and   
          Boleslaw K. Szymanski   Time Quantum GVT: A Scalable Computation
                                  of the Global Virtual Time in Parallel
                                  Discrete Event Simulations . . . . . . . 423--435
                    Chet Langin   Book Review: \em Languages and Machines:
                                  An Introduction to the Theory of
                                  Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--437
               Edusmildo Orozco   Book Review: \em Reconfigurable
                                  Computing. Accelerating Computation with
                                  Field-Programmable Gate Arrays . . . . . 437--438
             Anne Beno\^\it and   
Frédéric Loulergue   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
            Dorothy Bollman and   
         Javier Díaz and   
  Francisco Rodriguez-Henriquez   Introduction to the special issue: High
                                  performance reconfigurable computing . . vii--viii
 Beatriz Aparicio del Moral and   
Julio Rodríguez-Gómez and   
Antonio C. López Jiménez   Editorial: The present and the future of
                                  reconfigurable devices for space
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 9, Number 1, March, 2008

             Daniel Morariu and   
               Maria Vintan and   
                  Lucian Vintan   Studying SVM Method's Scalability Using
                                  Text Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
             Elvira Popescu and   
              Costin Badica and   
               Philippe Trigano   Learning Objects' Architecture and
                                  Indexing in WELSA Adaptive Educational
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
                 Doina Bein and   
              Ajoy K. Datta and   
           Shashirekha Yellenki   A Link-cluster Route Discovery Protocol
                                  for Ad Hoc Networks  . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
               V. Carchiolo and   
                 A. Longheu and   
                 M. Malgeri and   
                G. Mangioni and   
                     V. Nicosia   The Dilemma of Trust: a Social Network
                                  Based Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--37
               Sasa Tosi\'c and   
        Milos Radovanovi\'c and   
             Mirjana Ivanovi\'c   APP: Agent Planning Package  . . . . . . 39--49
           P. Gurský and   
          T. Horváth and   
          J. Jirásek and   
          R. Novotný and   
        J. Pribolová and   
         V. Vaneková and   
               P. Vojtás   Knowledge Processing for Web Search---An
                                  Integrated Model and Experiments . . . . 51--59
        Gregory Karagiorgos and   
          Nikolaos M. Missirlis   Load Balancing for the Numerical
                                  Solution of the Navier--Stokes Equations 61--68
            S. C. Panigrahi and   
                       G. Sahoo   An MIMD Algorithm for Finding Maximum
                                  and Minimum on OMTSE Architecture  . . . 69--75
             Andrew J. Kornecki   Airborne Software: Communication and
                                  Certification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--82
               Maria Ganzha and   
               Marcin Paprzycki   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Distributed Intelligent Systems  . . . . i--i

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 2008

                 Sunil John and   
               John P. Morrison   Object Oriented Condensed Graphs . . . . 83--94
        Peter Slízik and   
         Ladislav Hluchý   Simulation Models of Natural Disasters
                                  and Service-Based Visualization of Their
                                  Datasets in the Medigrid Project . . . . 95--100
   Gabriel Rodríguez and   
       Xoán C. Pardo and   
María J. Martín and   
   Patricia González and   
             Daniel Díaz   A Fault Tolerance Solution for
                                  Sequential and MPI Applications on the
                                  Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--109
                 Dana Petcu and   
    Alexandru Cârstea and   
          Georgiana Macariu and   
                 Marc Fr\^\incu   Service-oriented Symbolic Computing with
                                  SymGrid  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--125
             David E. Singh and   
           Alejandro Miguel and   
 Félix García and   
         Jesús Carretero   Mobile Agent Systems Integration into
                                  Parallel Environments  . . . . . . . . . 127--134
        Assel Zh. Akzhalova and   
         Daniar Y. Aizhulov and   
          Galymzhan Seralin and   
              Gulnar Balakayeva   Web portal for large-scale computations
                                  based on Grid and MPI  . . . . . . . . . 135--142
                Igor Rozman and   
               Marjan Sterk and   
                Jaka Mocnik and   
                Borut Robic and   
                   Roman Trobec   Performance Measurements of Computing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--150
                   Raheel Ahmad   Book Review: \em The $\pi$-Calculus: A
                                  theory of mobile processes . . . . . . . 151--152
               Marcin Paprzycki   Introduction to the special issue: Large
                                  Scale Computations on Grids  . . . . . . i--i

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 2008

 André Rigland Brodtkorb   An Asynchronous API for Numerical Linear
                                  Algebra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--163
                   J. Flich and   
                 S. Rodrigo and   
                   J. Duato and   
          T. Sòdring and   
        Å. G. Solheim and   
                   T. Skeie and   
                       O. Lysne   On the Potential of NoC Virtualization
                                  for Multicore Chips  . . . . . . . . . . 165--177
               Leonor Frias and   
           Johannes Singler and   
                  Peter Sanders   Single-Pass List Partitioning  . . . . . 179--184
                    Wei Han and   
                    Ying Yi and   
                  Mark Muir and   
            Ioannis Nousias and   
             Tughrul Arslan and   
               Ahmet T. Erdogan   Efficient Implementation of WiMAX
                                  Physical Layer on Multi-core
                                  Architectures with Dynamically
                                  Reconfigurable Processors  . . . . . . . 185--196
        Jan Christian Meyer and   
                 Anne C. Elster   Latency Impact on Spin-Lock Algorithms
                                  for Modern Shared Memory Multiprocessors 197--206
       Svetislav Momcilovic and   
                   Leonel Sousa   Parallel Advanced Video Coding: Motion
                                  Estimation on Multi-cores  . . . . . . . 207--218
             Elham S. Khorasani   Book Review: \em Artificial
                                  Intelligence: Structures and Strategies
                                  for Complex Problem Solving  . . . . . . 219--220
               Sabri Pllana and   
              Siegfried Benkner   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Recent Developments in Multi-Core
                                  Computing Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . i--i

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 2008

            Dominik Flejter and   
           Tomasz Kaczmarek and   
             Marek Kowalkiewicz   World Wide Web on the Move . . . . . . . 219--241
          Alexander Stocker and   
          Markus Strohmaier and   
              Klaus Tochtermann   Studying Knowledge Transfer with Weblogs
                                  in Small and Medium Enterprises: An
                                  Exploratory Case Study . . . . . . . . . 243--258
           Angela Fogarolli and   
                Marco Ronchetti   Discovering Semantics in Multimedia
                                  Content Using Wikipedia  . . . . . . . . 259--269
                       Raf Guns   Unevenness in Network Properties on the
                                  Social Semantic Web  . . . . . . . . . . 271--279
                  Yang Wang and   
                 Thomas Hornung   Deep Web Navigation by Example . . . . . 281--292
    Céline Van Damme and   
              Tanguy Coenen and   
                  Eddy Vandijck   Deriving a Lightweight Corporate
                                  Ontology form a Folksonomy: a
                                  Methodology and its Possible
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--301
          Alsayed Algergawy and   
             Eike Schallehn and   
                   Gunter Saake   Fuzzy Constraint-Based Schema Matching
                                  Formulation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--314
           Dimitris Bibikas and   
        Dimitrios Kourtesis and   
         Iraklis Paraskakis and   
            Ansgar Bernardi and   
              Leo Sauermann and   
         Dimitris Apostolou and   
           Gregoris Mentzas and   
       Ana Cristina Vasconcelos   A Sociotechnical Approach to Knowledge
                                  Management in the Era of Enterprise 2.0:
                                  the Case of OrganiK  . . . . . . . . . . 315--327
            Kay-Uwe Schmidt and   
        Roland Stühmer and   
            Ljiljana Stojanovic   From Business Rules to Application Rules
                                  in Rich Internet Applications  . . . . . 329--340
                Paolo Massa and   
              Kasper Souren and   
           Martino Salvetti and   
                Danilo Tomasoni   Trustlet, Open Research on Trust Metrics 341--351
                    Chet Langin   Book Review: \em Introduction to Data
                                  Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
            Dominik Flejter and   
           Tomasz Kaczmarek and   
             Marek Kowalkiewicz   Introduction to the special issue: The
                                  Web on the Move  . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
               Marcin Paprzycki   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 10, Number 1, March, 2009

                  Arta Doci and   
            Leonard Barolli and   
                    Fatos Xhafa   Recent Advances on the Simulation Models
                                  for Ad Hoc Networks: Real Traffic and
                                  Mobility Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
              Ciprian Dobre and   
                 Florin Pop and   
               Valentin Cristea   Simulation Framework for the Evaluation
                                  of Dependable Distributed Systems  . . . 13--23
                  Arta Doci and   
           William Springer and   
                    Fatos Xhafa   Impact of the Dynamic Membership in the
                                  Connectivity Graph of the Wireless Ad
                                  hoc Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34
               Sabri Pllana and   
                Fatos Xhafa and   
                Leonard Barolli   Automatic Performance Model
                                  Transformation from a Human-intuitive to
                                  a Machine-efficient Form . . . . . . . . 35--47
              Daniel Becker and   
            John C. Linford and   
          Rolf Rabenseifner and   
                     Felix Wolf   Replay-based synchronization of
                                  timestamps in event traces of massively
                                  parallel applications  . . . . . . . . . 49--60
                  Xingfu Wu and   
             Valerie Taylor and   
             Charles Lively and   
                 Sameh Sharkawi   Performance Analysis and Optimization of
                                  Parallel Scientific Applications on CMP
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74
       Anne-Elisabeth Baert and   
             Vincent Boudet and   
           Alain Jean-Marie and   
                   Xavier Roche   Minimization of Download Time Variance
                                  in a Distributed VOD System  . . . . . . 75--86
               Erianto Chai and   
       Katsuyoshi Matsumoto and   
              Minoru Uehara and   
                    Hideki Mori   Virtual Large-Scale Disk Base on PC Grid 87--98
                   Tao Yang and   
            Leonard Barolli and   
               Makoto Ikeda and   
          Giuseppe De Marco and   
                  Arjan Durresi   Performance Evaluation of a Wireless
                                  Sensor Network for Mobile and Stationary
                                  Event Cases Considering Routing
                                  Efficiency and Goodput Metrics . . . . . 99--109
                      Arta Doci   Book Review: \em Ad Hoc Networks:
                                  Technologies and Protocols . . . . . . . 111--112
      Kovendhan Ponnavaikko and   
                    Janakiram D   The Edge Node File System: A Distributed
                                  File System for High Performance
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
                Fatos Xhafa and   
                Leonard Barolli   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Simulation in Emergent Computational
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 10, Number 2, June, 2009

       Marta Beltrán and   
          Antonio Guzmán   The Impact of Workload Variability on
                                  Load Balancing Algorithms  . . . . . . . 131--146
   Abdoulaye Gamatié and   
         Éric Rutten and   
                 Huafeng Yu and   
              Pierre Boulet and   
              Jean-Luc Dekeyser   Model-Driven Engineering and Formal
                                  Validation of High-Performance Embedded
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--161
            Stefan D. Bruda and   
                 Yuanqiao Zhang   Relations Between Several Parallel
                                  Computational Models . . . . . . . . . . 163--172
           Gennaro Cordasco and   
             Biagio Cosenza and   
          Rosario De Chiara and   
                   Ugo Erra and   
               Vittorio Scarano   Experiences with Mesh-like computations
                                  using Prediction Binary Trees  . . . . . 173--187
                 Maciej Mlynski   The influence of the IBM pSeries servers
                                  virtualization mechanism on dynamic
                                  resource allocation in AIX 5L  . . . . . 189--199
                 Ravi Reddy and   
         Alexey Lastovetsky and   
                   Pedro Alonso   HeteroPBLAS: A Set of Parallel Basic
                                  Linear Algebra Subprograms Optimized for
                                  Heterogeneous Computational Clusters . . 201--216
          Jayanta Mukherjee and   
                 Soumyendu Raha   Power-aware Speed-up for Multithreaded
                                  Numerical Linear Algebraic Solvers on
                                  Chip Multicore Processors  . . . . . . . 217--228
                   Marek Tudruj   Introduction to the special issue  . . . i--ii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 10, Number 3, September, 2009

            Tanguy Le Berre and   
            Philippe Mauran and   
       Gérard Padiou and   
       Philippe Quéinnec   Real Time Behavior of Data in
                                  Distributed Embedded Systems . . . . . . 229--239
               J\`an Galdun and   
          Jean-Marc Thiriet and   
                    J\`an Ligus   Study of different load dependencies
                                  among shared redundant systems . . . . . 241--252
              Laure Gonnord and   
            Jean-Philippe Babau   Qinna: a component-based framework for
                                  runtime safe resource adaptation of
                                  embedded systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264
               Guido Moritz and   
            Steffen Prueter and   
            Dirk Timmermann and   
               Frank Golatowski   Deployment of Embedded Web Services in
                                  Real-Time Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 265--275
Alécio P. D. Binotto and   
       Edison P. de Freitas and   
       Marco A. Wehrmeister and   
          Carlos E. Pereira and   
         André Stork and   
                   Tony Larsson   Towards Task Dynamic Reconfiguration
                                  over Asymmetric Computing Platforms for
                                  UAVs Surveillance Systems  . . . . . . . 277--289
      Diego Martínez and   
           Francisco Blanes and   
                  Jose Simo and   
              Alfons Crespotica   Wireless Sensors and Actuators Networks:
                                  Characterization and Cases Study for
                                  Confined Spaces Healthcare and Control
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--305
                   Ha Yoon Song   Combination of Localization Techniques
                                  for Mobile Sensor Network for Precise
                                  Localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--324
           Dariusz Rzo\'nca and   
             Jan Sadolewski and   
               Andrzej Stec and   
          Zbigniew \'Swider and   
             Bartosz Trybus and   
                  Leszek Trybus   Open environment for programming small
                                  controllers according to IEC 61131-3
                                  standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--336
                Janusz Zalewski   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Real-Time Distributed Systems and
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 2009

                 L. F. Shampine   Vectorized Solution of ODEs in Matlab    337--345
               Jeff R. Cash and   
               Francesca Mazzia   Conditioning and Hybrid Mesh Selection
                                  Algorithms for Two-Point Boundary Value
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--361
                 Laurent O. Jay   Preconditioning of implicit Runge--Kutta
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--372
           Pierluigi Amodio and   
             Giuseppe Romanazzi   Parallel Numerical Solution of ABD and
                                  BABD linear systems arising from BVPs    373--383
           Pierluigi Amodio and   
                 Luigi Brugnano   Parallel Factorizations in Numerical
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--396
               Maria Ganzha and   
           Marcin Paprzycki and   
          Michal Drozdowicz and   
           Mehrdad Senobari and   
                Ivan Lirkov and   
           Sofiya Ivanovska and   
            Richard Olejnik and   
                  Pavel Telegin   Mirroring information within an
                                  agent-team-based intelligent Grid
                                  middleware; an overview and directions
                                  for system development . . . . . . . . . 397--411
           Branko Marovi\'c and   
             Milan Potocnik and   
          Branislav Cukanovi\'c   Multi-application bag of jobs for
                                  interactive and on-demand computing  . . 413--418
            Richard Olejnik and   
             Iyad Alshabani and   
            Bernard Toursel and   
             Eryk Laskowski and   
                   Marek Tudruj   Load Balancing Metrics for the SOAJA
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--428
                    Ami Marowka   Performance Study of the First Three
                                  Intel Multicore Processors . . . . . . . 429--441
                  Anthony Kulis   Book Review: \em Bio-Inspired Artificial
                                  Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and
                                  Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
           Pierluigi Amodio and   
                 Luigi Brugnano   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Special Issue Devoted to Professor Ian
                                  Gladwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 2010

     Mugurel Ionut Andreica and   
                  Nicolae Tapus   Algorithmic Solutions for Several
                                  Offline Constrained Resource Processing
                                  and Data Transfer Multicriteria
                                  Optimization Problems  . . . . . . . . . 1--17
             Ovidiu Aritoni and   
                   Viorel Negru   Sensors Data-Stream Processing
                                  Middleware based on Multi-Agent Model    19--32
               Andrei Olaru and   
            Cristian Gratie and   
             Adina Magda Florea   Context-Aware Emergent Behaviour in a
                                  MAS for Information Exchange . . . . . . 33--42
                 Doina Bein and   
              Ajoy K. Datta and   
   Balaji ashok Sathyanarayanan   Efficient Broadcasting in MANETs by
                                  Selective Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . 43--52
           Blesson Varghese and   
                   Gerard McKee   Exploring Carrier Agents in Swarm-Array
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--62
             Carmen Morgado and   
       José C. Cunha and   
               Nuno Correia and   
          Jorge Custódio   Group-based interactions for multiuser
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--71
          Aneta Karaivanova and   
         Emanouil Atanassov and   
                Todor Gurov and   
           Sofiya Ivanovska and   
                Mariya Durchova   Parallel Quasirandom Applications on
                                  Heterogeneous Grid . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80
      Marc Eduard Fr\^\incu and   
                     Dana Petcu   OSyRIS: a Nature Inspired Workflow
                                  Engine for Service Oriented Environments 81--97
               Viorel Negru and   
         Adina Magda Florea and   
                  Costin Badica   Introduction to the special issue:
                                  Selected Papers from workshops ACSys2009
                                  and IDC'2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 2010

         Leif Lindbäck and   
           Vladimir Vlassov and   
         Shahab Mokarizadeh and   
               Gabriele Violino   VOFS: A Secure Churn-Tolerant Grid File
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108
                A. Clematis and   
                  A. Corana and   
              D. D'Agostino and   
                 A. Galizia and   
                     A. Quarati   Matching Jobs with Resources: an
                                  application-driven approach  . . . . . . 109--120
               Renata Slota and   
              Darin Nikolow and   
            Stanislaw Polak and   
                Marcin Kuta and   
         Mariusz Kapanowski and   
          Kornel Skalkowski and   
               Marek Pogoda and   
                 Jacek Kitowski   Prediction and Load Balancing System for
                                  Distributed Storage  . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
              Ondrej Habala and   
              Martin Seleng and   
                  Viet Tran and   
     Ladislav Hluchý and   
             Martin Kremler and   
                    Martin Gera   Distributed Data Integration and Mining
                                  Using ADMIRE Technology  . . . . . . . . 131--136
         Emanouil Atanassov and   
                Todor Gurov and   
              Aneta Karaivanova   Ultra-fast Carrier Transport Simulation
                                  on the Grid. Quasi-Random Approach . . . 137--147
      Salvatore Venticinque and   
               Rocco Aversa and   
       Beniamino Di Martino and   
              Renato Donini and   
           Sergio Briguglio and   
                  Gregorio Vlad   Management of High Performance
                                  Scientific Applications using Mobile
                                  Agents based Services  . . . . . . . . . 149--159
            Dawid Szejnfeld and   
            Piotr Dziubecki and   
                Piotr Kopta and   
           Michal Krysinski and   
           Tomasz Kuczynski and   
         Krzysztof Kurowski and   
           Bogdan Ludwiczak and   
             Tomasz Piontek and   
         Dominik Tarnawczyk and   
     Ma\lgorzata Wolniewicz and   
           Piotr Domagalski and   
        Jaros\law Nabrzyski and   
            Krzysztof Witkowski   Vine Toolkit --- Towards portal based
                                  production solutions for scientific and
                                  engineering communities with
                                  Grid-enabled resources support . . . . . 161--172
             Wilfried Jakob and   
         Florian Möser and   
           Alexander Quinte and   
            Karl-Uwe Stucky and   
        Wolfgang Süß   Fast Multi-objective Rescheduling of
                                  Workflows to Constrained Resources Using
                                  Heuristics and Memetic Evolution . . . . 173--188
              Ivona Brandic and   
                Dejan Music and   
               Schahram Dustdar   VieSLAF Framework: Facilitating
                                  Negotiations in Clouds by applying
                                  service mediation and negotiation
                                  bootstrapping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--204
              Andrei Hutanu and   
             Erik Schnetter and   
              Werner Benger and   
          Eloisa Bentivegna and   
                 Alex Clary and   
               Peter Diener and   
                 Jinghua Ge and   
              Robert Kooima and   
              Oleg Korobkin and   
                   Kexi Liu and   
         Frank Löffler and   
             Ravi Paruchuri and   
                   Jian Tao and   
            Cornelius Toole and   
                 Adam Yates and   
                Gabrielle Allen   Large Scale Problem Solving Using
                                  Automatic Code Generation and
                                  Distributed Visualization  . . . . . . . 205--220
                 Dana Petcu and   
                Ewa Deelman and   
              Norbert Meyer and   
               Marcin Paprzycki   Introduction to the special issue: Grid
                                  and Cloud Computing and their
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 2010

              Gerassimos Barlas   Optimizing Image Content-Based Query
                                  Applications Over High Latency
                                  Communication Media, Using Single and
                                  Multiple Port Communications . . . . . . 221--237
   Andreas Binzenhöfer and   
            Gerald Kunzmann and   
                  Robert Henjes   Design and Analysis of a Scalable
                                  Algorithm to Monitor Chord-based P2P
                                  Systems at Runtime . . . . . . . . . . . 239--249
            Eugenio Cesario and   
                 Domenico Talia   Using Grids for Exploiting the Abundance
                                  of Data in Science . . . . . . . . . . . 251--262
            Marco Danelutto and   
               D. Laforenza and   
              N. Tonellotto and   
               M. Vanneschi and   
                     C. Zoccolo   Modeling Stream Communications in
                                  Component-based Applications . . . . . . 263--275
              Gianni Danese and   
         Francesco Leporati and   
                 Marco Bera and   
             Mauro Giachero and   
           Nelson Nazzicari and   
               Alvaro Spelgatti   High performance computing through SoC
                                  coprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--288
                  Tom Gross and   
              Nicolai Marquardt   Creating, Editing, and Sharing Complex
                                  Ubiquitous Computing Environment
                                  Configurations with CollaborationBus . . 289--303
      Kovendhan Ponnavaikko and   
       Janakiram Dharanipragada   Wide Area Distributed File Systems --- a
                                  Scalability and Performance Survey . . . 305--325
                      Jie Cheng   Book Review: \booktitleProgramming
                                  Massively Parallel Processors. A
                                  Hands-on Approach, by David Kirk and
                                  Wen-mei Hwu, ISBN 978-0-12-381472-2  . . 327--327
             Pasqua D'Ambra and   
        Daniela di Serafino and   
   Mario Rosario Guarracino and   
                Francesca Perla   Introduction to the Special Issue:
                                  Parallel, Distributed and Network-based
                                  Computing: an Application Perspective    i--i

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 2010

               Roland Bless and   
           Martin Röhricht   Implementation and Evaluation of a
                                  NAT-Gateway for the General Internet
                                  Signaling Transport Protocol . . . . . . 329--343
                     Jaydip Sen   An Efficient and User Privacy-Preserving
                                  Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--358
                Atif Sharif and   
       Vidyasagar M. Potdar and   
            A. J. D. Rathnayaka   ERCTP: End-to-End Reliable and
                                  Congestion Aware Transport Layer
                                  Protocol for Heterogeneous WSN . . . . . 359--371
          Inderpreet Chopra and   
                 Maninder Singh   Implementing Self-Protection in
                                  Distributed Grid Environment . . . . . . 373--383
           Ahmed Bendahmane and   
          Mohammad Essaaidi and   
         Ahmed El Moussaoui and   
                     Ali Younes   Reputation-based Majority Voting for
                                  Malicious Grid Resources Tolerance . . . 385--392
               Andrei Olaru and   
             Adina Magda Florea   A Graph-Based Approach to Context
                                  Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--399
                      Jie Cheng   Book Review: \booktitleCUDA by Example:
                                  An Introduction to General-Purpose GPU
                                  Programming, by Jason Sanders and Edward
                                  Kandrot, ISBN-13 978-0-13-138768-3 . . . 401--401
           Jemal H. Abawajy and   
            Mukaddim Pathan and   
       Al-Sakib Khan Pathan and   
              Mustafizur Rahman   Introduction to the Special Issue:
                                  Network Management in Distributed
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 2011

           Michele Barletta and   
              Alberto Calvi and   
              Silvio Ranise and   
                Luca Vigano and   
                   Luca Zanetti   Workflow and Access Control Reloaded: a
                                  Declarative Specification Framework for
                                  the Automated Analysis of Web Services   1--20
                     Florin Pop   Resource Management based on Gossip
                                  Monitoring Algorithm for Large Scale
                                  Distributed Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 21--34
      Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda   Management of access control in
                                  information system based on role concept 35--49
              Ciprian Dobre and   
                  Andreea Marin   Automatic Data Migration e-System for
                                  Public Administration e-Services . . . . 51--62
         Raffaela Mirandola and   
              Pasqualina Potena   A QoS-based framework for the adaptation
                                  of service-based systems . . . . . . . . 63--78
            Adrian Cole\csa and   
           Alexandra Coldea and   
                    Iosif Ignat   Flexible Organization in the OrcFS
                                  Relational File System for Efficient
                                  File Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--92
         Damian Mierzwinski and   
            Dariusz Walczak and   
              Marcin Wolski and   
                   Marcin Wrzos   Video and Sensor Data Integration in a
                                  Service-Oriented Surveillance System . . 93--103
        Ioan Alfred Le\ctia and   
       Radu R\uazvan Sl\uavescu   Trusted Beliefs for Helpful Behavior
                                  When Building Web Services . . . . . . . 105--120
              Pawel Bachara and   
            Krzysztof Zielinski   Service Component Architecture Extension
                                  for Sensor Networks  . . . . . . . . . . 121--135
        Cristina Bianca Pop and   
       Viorica Rozina Chifu and   
               Ioan Salomie and   
         Mihaela Dinsoreanu and   
                Tudor David and   
                 Vlad Acretoaie   Ant-inspired Framework for Automatic Web
                                  Service Composition  . . . . . . . . . . 137--151
                 Eero Ivask and   
             Sergei Devadze and   
                   Raimund Ubar   Distributed Fault Simulation with
                                  Collaborative Load Balancing for VLSI
                                  Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--163
                 Dana Petcu and   
                     Alex Galis   Introduction to the Special Issue:
                                  Selected Papers from 1st Workshop on
                                  Software Services  . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 2011

         Roland Kübert and   
                  Stefan Wesner   Using service level agreements in a
                                  high-performance computing environment   164--177
             Matthias Assel and   
              Lutz Schubert and   
       Daniel Rubio Bonilla and   
                  Stefan Wesner   Beyond Clouds --- Towards Real Utility
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191
          Abdelhamid Elwaer and   
                 Ian Taylor and   
                      Omer Rana   Optimizing Data Distribution in
                                  Volunteer Computing Systems using
                                  Resources of Participants  . . . . . . . 193--208
                 Chen Zhang and   
                 Hans De Sterck   HBaseSI: Multi-row Distributed
                                  Transactions with Global Strong Snapshot
                                  Isolation on Clouds  . . . . . . . . . . 209--226
                  Pawel Czarnul   Parallelization of Compute Intensive
                                  Applications into Workflows based on
                                  Services in BeesyCluster . . . . . . . . 227--238
       Yusuf Mohamadi Begum and   
            M. A. Maluk Mohamed   DEEPG: Dual Heap Overlay Resource
                                  Discovery Protocol for Mobile Grid . . . 239--255
            Bernhard Schott and   
                       Ad Emmen   Green Desktop-Grids: Scientific Impact,
                                  Carbon Footprint, Power Usage Efficiency 257--264
            Mads Kristensen and   
                 Hans Happe and   
                   Brian Vinter   Hybrid Parallel Programming for Blue
                                  Gene/P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--274
           Satish Panigrahi and   
             Asish Mukhopadhyay   Some Geometric Problems on OMTSE
                                  Optoelectronic Computer  . . . . . . . . 275--282
                 Dana Petcu and   
               Marcin Paprzycki   Introduction to Special Issue: New
                                  Directions in Cloud and Grid Computing   i--i

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 2011

            Lukasz Chomatek and   
      Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda   Vehicle routing problems with the use of
                                  multi-agent system . . . . . . . . . . . 283--291
        Karol Furdík and   
             Peter Bedn\uar and   
          Gabriel Luk\ua\vc and   
              Christoph Fritsch   Support of Semantic Interoperability in
                                  a Service-based Business Collaboration
                                  Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305
     Peter Kostelník and   
    Martin Sarnovský and   
            Karol Furdík   The Semantic Middleware for Networked
                                  Embedded Systems Applied in the Internet
                                  of Things and Services Domain  . . . . . 307--315
               Danny Harnik and   
         Elliot K. Kolodner and   
               Shahar Ronen and   
              Julian Satran and   
    Alexandra Shulman-Peleg and   
                      Sivan Tal   Secure Access Mechanism for Cloud
                                  Storage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--336
              Ciprian Dobre and   
                 Florin Pop and   
           Valentin Cristea and   
            Ovidiu-Marian Achim   A Virtualization-based Approach to
                                  Dependable Service Computing . . . . . . 337--350
               Joan Navarro and   
José Enrique Armendariz-Inigo and   
                 August Climent   An Adaptive and Scalable Replication
                                  Protocol on Power Smart Grids  . . . . . 351--362
        Cristina Bianca Pop and   
       Viorica Rozina Chifu and   
               Ioan Salomie and   
        Ramona Bianca Baico and   
         Mihaela Dinsoreanu and   
                Georgiana Copil   A Hybrid Firefly-inspired Approach for
                                  Optimal Semantic Web Service Composition 363--369
           Binh Minh Nguyen and   
                  Viet Tran and   
                Ladislav Hluchy   Abstraction layer for Cloud computing    371--374
                 Dana Petcu and   
      Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti   Selected Papers From the 2nd Workshop on
                                  Software Services  . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 2011

Dessislava Petrova-Antonova and   
               Aleksandar Dimov   Towards a Taxonomy of Web Service
                                  Composition Approaches . . . . . . . . . 377--384
        Klaus-Dieter Schewe and   
         Károly Bosa and   
        Harald Lampesberger and   
                      Ji Ma and   
                Mariam Rady and   
                    Boris Vleju   Challenges in Cloud Computing  . . . . . 385--390
                 Florin Pop and   
     Marius-Viorel Grigoras and   
              Ciprian Dobre and   
               Ovidiu Achim and   
               Valentin Cristea   Load-Balancing Metric for Service
                                  Dependability in Large Scale Distributed
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--401
      Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda   Multi-agent Systems for Access Control
                                  in Distributed Informations Systems  . . 403--415
           Vaidas Giedrimas and   
         Audrius Varoneckas and   
       Algimantas Juozapavicius   The Grid and Cloud Computing Facilities
                                  in Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--421
                 Dana Petcu and   
      Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti   Selected Papers from the 2nd Workshop on
                                  Software Services  . . . . . . . . . . . iii


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 2012

              Benoit Gaudin and   
            Mike H. Hinchey and   
                Emil Vassev and   
                Paddy Nixon and   
         Joao Coelho Garcia and   
                   Walid Maalej   FastFix: a Control Theoretic View of
                                  Self-Healing for Automatic Corrective
                                  Software Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 5--20
           Döra Bihary and   
Ádám Kerényi and   
     Zsolt Gelencsér and   
             Sergiu Netotea and   
Attila Kertész-Farkas and   
           Vittorio Venturi and   
           Sándor Pongor   Simulation of communication and
                                  cooperation in multispecies bacterial
                                  communities with an agent based model    21--28
          Francesco Moscato and   
       Beniamino Di Martino and   
                   Rocco Aversa   Enabling Model Driven Engineering of
                                  Cloud Services by using mOSAIC Ontology  29--44
                 Suparna De and   
              Tarek Elsaleh and   
             Payam Barnaghi and   
                Stefan Meissner   An Internet of Things Platform for
                                  Real-World and Digital Objects . . . . . 45--57
           Ionel Muscalagiu and   
            Horia Emil Popa and   
                   Viorel Negru   The effect of temporary links in
                                  randomly generated networks of
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--71
          Cristina Mindruta and   
        Victor Ion Munteanu and   
               Viorel Negru and   
                   Calin sandru   Multi-Agent Architecture in Semantic
                                  Services Environment . . . . . . . . . . 73--83
                   Leila Ismail   A Ring-Based Parallel Oil Reservoir
                                  Simulator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--98
                 Dana Petcu and   
                Daniela Zaharie   Introduction to the Special Issue: Agent
                                  based systems & semantic software
                                  services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 2012

              Lars Braubach and   
               Alexander Pokahr   Developing Distributed Systems with
                                  Active Components and Jadex  . . . . . . 100--119
       Emad Eldeen Elakehal and   
                  Julian Padget   MSMAS: Modelling Self-managing Multi
                                  Agent Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--137
          Gianmarco Baldini and   
Ranga Rao Vencatesha Prasad and   
         Abdur Rahim Biswas and   
             Klaus Moessner and   
            Matti Etelapera and   
        Juha-Pekka Soininen and   
   Septimiu-Cosmin Nechifor and   
           Vera Stavroulaki and   
            Panagiotis Vlacheas   A Cognitive Management Framework to
                                  Support Exploitation of the Future
                                  Internet of Things . . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
              Neki Frasheri and   
              Salvatore Bushati   An Algorithm for Gravity Anomaly
                                  Inversion in HPC . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--157
              Neelima Reddy and   
        Raghavendra Prakash and   
               Ram Mohana Reddy   New Sparse Matrix Storage Format to
                                  Improve The Performance of Total SPMV
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--171
           Janusz Borkowski and   
                   Marek Tudruj   Dynamic Distributed Programs Control
                                  Based on Global Program States
                                  Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--186

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 2012

              Faris Nizamic and   
          Viktoriya Degeler and   
              Rix Groenboom and   
              Alexander Lazovik   Policy-Based Scheduling of Cloud
                                  Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--199
Sergio García-Gómez and   
Miguel Jiménez-Gañán and   
                Yehia Taher and   
              Christof Momm and   
            Frederic Junker and   
         József Biro and   
          Andreas Menychtas and   
     Vasilios Andrikopoulos and   
                  Steve Strauch   Challenges for the comprehensive
                                  management of Cloud Services in a PaaS
                                  framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--213
                Yehia Taher and   
           Dinh Khoa Nguyen and   
            Francesco Lelli and   
  Willem-Jan van den Heuvel and   
                Mike Papazoglou   On Engineering Cloud Applications ---
                                  State of the Art, Shortcomings Analysis,
                                  and Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--231
            Frederic Junker and   
          Jürgen Vogel and   
            Katarina Stanoevska   Approaches to Aggregate Price Models to
                                  Enable Composite Services on Electronic
                                  Marketplaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--249
               Adrian Copie and   
       Teodor Florin Fortis and   
        Victor Ion Munteanu and   
                   Viorel Negru   Datastores supporting Services Lifecycle
                                  in the framework of Cloud Governance . . 251--267
           Janusz Borkowski and   
          Damian Kopa\'nski and   
             Eryk Laskowski and   
            Richard Olejnik and   
                   Marek Tudruj   A Distributed Program Global Execution
                                  Control Environment Applied to Load
                                  balancing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--284
José Luis Vázquez-Poletti and   
                 Dana Petcu and   
                Francesco Lelli   Introduction to the Special Issue:
                                  Selected Papers from the International
                                  Workshop on Clouds for Business and
                                  Business for Clouds  . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 13, Number 4, 2012

         Enn Õunapuu and   
               Vlado Stankovski   Introduction to the Special Issue  . . . ??
                 Jiri Kolar and   
                   Tomas Pitner   Agile BPM in the age of Cloud
                                  technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Susana Azevedo and   
                Paula Prata and   
           Paulo Fazendeiro and   
               V. Cruz--Machado   Assessment of Supply Chain Agility in a
                                  Cloud Computing-based Framework  . . . . ??
                     Dana Petcu   A Panorama of Cloud Services . . . . . . ??
               Janis Grabis and   
                Martins Bonders   A Simulation Platform for Evaluation and
                                  Optimization of Composite Applications   ??
                  Pawel Czarnul   Integration of cloud-based services into
                                  distributed workflow systems: challenges
                                  and solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Benjamin Aziz   An Algorithm for Trading Grid Resources
                                  in a Virtual Marketplace . . . . . . . . ??


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 14, Number 1, 2013

             Marc Eduard Frincu   Introduction to the Special Issue  . . . ??
          Alessandro Marani and   
                Marzia Rivi and   
               Paola Cristofori   Generation of Catalogues of PL
                                  $n$-manifolds: Computational Aspects on
                                  HPC Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Dimitris Zeginis and   
         Francesco D'Andria and   
            Stefano Bocconi and   
   Jesus Gorronogoitia Cruz and   
       Oriol Collell Martin and   
          Panagiotis Gouvas and   
            Giannis Ledakis and   
      Konstantinos A. Tarabanis   A user-centric multi-PaaS application
                                  management solution for hybrid
                                  multi-Cloud scenarios  . . . . . . . . . ??
          Giuseppe Aversano and   
           Massimiliano Rak and   
                Umberto Villano   The mOSAIC Benchmarking Framework:
                                  Development and Execution of Custom
                                  Cloud Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Serban Radu and   
             Eugenia Kalisz and   
             Adina Magda Florea   A model of automated negotiation based
                                  on agents profiles . . . . . . . . . . . ??
       Gentiana Ioana Latiu and   
     Octavian Augustin Cret and   
                  Lucia Vacariu   New Performance Estimation Formula for
                                  Evolutionary Testing of Switch-Case
                                  Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 14, Number 2, 2013

               Viorel Negru and   
                Daniela Zaharie   Introduction to the Special Issue  . . . ??
               Ionut Anghel and   
        Cristina Bianca Pop and   
               Tudor Cioara and   
               Ioan Salomie and   
                   Iulia Vartic   A Swarm-inspired Technique for
                                  Self-Organizing and Consolidating Data
                                  Centre Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Naoual Attaoui and   
               Maria Ganzha and   
           Marcin Paprzycki and   
      Katarzyna Wasielewska and   
              Mohammad Essaaidi   Multiple equivalent simultaneous offers
                                  strategy in an agent-based grid resource
                                  brokering system --- initial
                                  considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Djamel Benmerzoug   An Agent-Based Approach For Hybrid
                                  Multi-Cloud Applications . . . . . . . . ??
            Mariusz Mesjasz and   
           Marcin Paprzycki and   
                   Maria Ganzha   Establishing semantic closeness in an
                                  agent-based travel support system  . . . ??
              Eugenio Zimeo and   
           Gianfranco Oliva and   
                Fabio Baldi and   
             Alfonso Caracciolo   Designing a Scalable Social e-Commerce
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 14, Number 3, 2013

          Ethiopia Nigussie and   
             Andreas Riener and   
                    Liang Guang   Introduction to the Special Issue  . . . ??
            Christine Bauer and   
          Christine Strauss and   
          Christian Stummer and   
                Alexander Trieb   Context-aware services in cooperative
                                  value chains: a key player-centred
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Pekka Nikander and   
       Vaddina Kameswar Rao and   
                Petri Liuha and   
                 Hannu Tenhunen   ELL-i: An inexpensive platform for fixed
                                  things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Alex Ciobanu and   
                Florentin Ipate   $P$ System Testing with Parallel
                                  Simulators --- a Survey  . . . . . . . . ??
                    Alex Muscar   Join Patterns for Concurrent Agents
                                  (position paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 14, Number 4, 2013

                Maria Fazio and   
                     Nik Bessis   Introduction to the Special Issue  . . . ??
         Giuseppe Di Modica and   
          Francesco Pantano and   
               Orazio Tomarchio   An OSGi middleware to enable the Sensor
                                  as a Service paradigm  . . . . . . . . . ??
                Maria Fazio and   
            Antonio Celesti and   
          Antonio Puliafito and   
                Massimo Villari   A Message Oriented Middleware for Cloud
                                  Computing To Improve Efficiency in Risk
                                  Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . ??
        Salvatore Distefano and   
           Giovanni Merlino and   
              Antonio Puliafito   Mobiles for Sensing Clouds: the
                                  SAaaS4Mobile Experience  . . . . . . . . ??
           Paolo Bellavista and   
            Antonio Corradi and   
              Luca Foschini and   
           Alessandro Pernafini   Towards an Automated BPEL-based SaaS
                                  Provisioning Support for OpenStack IaaS  ??
              Simone Cirani and   
               Marco Picone and   
                    Luca Veltri   A session initiation protocol for the
                                  Internet of Things . . . . . . . . . . . ??
            Massimo Villari and   
            Antonio Celesti and   
                Maria Fazio and   
              Antonio Puliafito   Evaluating a File Fragmentation System
                                  for Multi-Provider Cloud Storage . . . . ??
               Dario Bruneo and   
            Francesco Longo and   
                David Hadas and   
             Elliot K. Kolodner   Analytical Investigation of Availability
                                  in a Vision Cloud Storage Cluster  . . . ??
             Ciro Formisano and   
         Elliot K. Kolodner and   
    Alexandra Shulman-Peleg and   
         Ermanno Travaglino and   
                 Gil Vernik and   
                Massimo Villari   Delegation across storage clouds:
                                  on-boarding federation as a case study   ??


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 15, Number 1, 2014

           Teodor Florin Fortis   Introduction to the Special Issue  . . . ??
                 I. Simecek and   
                       D. Langr   Tree-based Space Efficient Formats for
                                  Storing the Structure of Sparse Matrices ??
                   D. Langr and   
                 I. Simecek and   
                  P. Tvrdik and   
                     T. Dytrych   Large-Scale Visualization of Sparse
                                  Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Jerome Frisch and   
         Ralf-Peter Mundani and   
                     Ernst Rank   Adaptive Multi-Grid Methods for Parallel
                                  CFD Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Massimiliano Rak and   
              Massimo Ficco and   
           Ermanno Battista and   
           Valentina Casola and   
                Nicola Mazzocca   Developing Secure Cloud Applications . . ??
                 Alba Amato and   
          Salvatore Venticinque   A Distributed Agent-based Decision
                                  Support for Cloud Brokering  . . . . . . ??
               Maria Ganzha and   
           Marcin Paprzycki and   
             Stanislav Sedukhin   Image scrambling on a ``mesh-of-tori''
                                  architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Mohamed Gharzouli and   
            Youcef Messelem and   
          Mohamed Elhadi Bounas   TTL-Chord: A Chord-based Approach for
                                  Semantic Web Services Discovery  . . . . ??
           Hanene Chettaoui and   
            Faouzi Ben Charrada   A new decentralized periodic replication
                                  strategy for dynamic data grids  . . . . ??

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 15, Number 2, 2014

           Teodor Florin Fortis   Introduction to the Special Issue  . . . ??
                Serban Radu and   
             Adina Magda Florea   Bargain strategies for agent automated
                                  negotiation in an e-business environment ??
          Andreas Menychtas and   
      Kleopatra Konstanteli and   
              Juncal Alonso and   
      Leire Orue-Echevarria and   
        Jesus Gorronogoitia and   
          George Kousiouris and   
      Christina Santzaridou and   
            Hugo Bruneliere and   
               Bram Pellens and   
                Peter Stuer and   
             Oliver Strauss and   
            Tatiana Senkova and   
            Theodora Varvarigou   Software modernization and
                                  cloudification using the ARTIST
                                  migration methodology and framework  . . ??
            Bakhta Meroufel and   
                 Ghalem Belalem   Adaptive time-based coordinated
                                  checkpointing for cloud computing
                                  workflows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
         Richard M. Wallace and   
             Patrick Martin and   
      Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti   Regulated Condition-Event Matrices for
                                  Cloud Environments . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Maria Ganzha and   
           Marcin Paprzycki and   
          Stanislav G. Sedukhin   Generalized Matrix Multiplication and
                                  its Object Oriented Model  . . . . . . . ??

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 15, Number 3, 2014

              Costin Badica and   
               Mirjana Ivanovic   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Modeling and Simulation Applications of
                                  Software Agents  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Davide Anghinolfi and   
         Alberto Capogrosso and   
           Massimo Paolucci and   
                Perra Francesco   A system supporting the evaluation of
                                  the operational effectiveness of naval
                                  tasks based on agent simulation  . . . . ??
               Marina Ntika and   
             Petros Kefalas and   
           Ioanna Stamatopoulou   Formal modelling and simulation of a
                                  multi-agent nano-robotic drug delivery
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Mihaela Oprea   ABVE-construct: an agent-based virtual
                                  entreprise model for civil engineering   ??
                 Dana Petcu and   
        Athanasios V. Vasilakos   Portability in clouds: approaches and
                                  research opportunities . . . . . . . . . ??
                Art Sedighi and   
                Yuefan Deng and   
                     Peng Zhang   Fariness of task scheduling in high
                                  performance computing environments . . . ??

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 15, Number 4, 2014

              Giacomo Cabri and   
          Federico Bergenti and   
               Marco Aiello and   
              Sumitra Reddy and   
                   Ramada Reddy   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Enabling Technologies for Collaborations ??
   Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama and   
               Nicklas Hoch and   
              Franco Zambonelli   Engineering and implementing software
                                  architectural patterns based on feedback
                                  loops  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Claudio Gargiulo and   
         Delfina Malandrino and   
             Donato Pirozzi and   
               Vittorio Scarano   Simulation data sharing to foster
                                  teamwork collaboration . . . . . . . . . ??
             Michela Basili and   
            Maurizio De Angelis   Investigation on the optimal properties
                                  of semi active control devices with
                                  continuous control for equipment
                                  isolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Bogdan Manate and   
       Teodor-Florin Fortis and   
                   Viorel Negru   Optimizing cloud resources allocation
                                  for an Internet of Things architecture   ??


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 16, Number 1, 2015

            Jesus Carretero and   
         Javier Garcia-Blas and   
                  Sandra Gesing   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Cloud for Health . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
          Barbara Calabrese and   
                Mario Cannataro   Cloud Computing in Healthcare and
                                  Biomedicine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Philip Church and   
              Andrzej Goscinski   Selected Approaches and Frameworks to
                                  Carry out Genomic Data Analysis on the
                                  Cloud  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Sohaib Ahmad and   
                Osman Hasan and   
                 Umair Siddique   On the Formalization of Zsyntax with
                                  Applications in Molecular Biology  . . . ??
           Olivia Choudhury and   
          Nicholas Hazekamp and   
              Douglas Thain and   
                   Scott Emrich   Accelerating Comparative Genomics Work
                                  Flows in a Distributed Environment with
                                  Optimized Data Partitioning and Work
                                  Flow Fusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
       Zachary John Estrada and   
                   Fei Deng and   
           Zachary Stephens and   
                 Cuong Pham and   
        Zbigniew Kalbarczyk and   
               Ravishankar Iyer   Performance Comparison and Tuning of
                                  Virtual Machines For Sequence Alignment
                                  Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Christoph Jansen and   
           Maximilian Beier and   
               Michael Witt and   
                     Jie Wu and   
                Dagmar Krefting   Extending XNAT towards a Cloud-based
                                  Quality Assessment Platform for Retinal
                                  Optical Coherence Tomographies . . . . . ??
            Emanuel Marzini and   
                 Paolo Mori and   
             Sergio Di Bona and   
              Davide Guerri and   
              Marco Lettere and   
                    Laura Ricci   A Tool for Managing the X1.V1 Platform
                                  on the Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 16, Number 2, 2015

             David Anderson and   
                   Marjan Gusev   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Scalable and Distributed Applications    iii--iii
Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos and   
  Panagiotis D. Michailidis and   
     Konstantinos G. Margaritis   Multiple String Matching on a GPU using
                                  CUDAs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--138
                 Alba Amato and   
          Salvatore Venticinque   A Scalable and Distributed Cloud
                                  Brokering Service  . . . . . . . . . . . 139--152
               Fred T. Tray and   
             Thomas C. Oppe and   
            William A. Ward and   
            Maureen K. Corcoran   A Scalability Study using Supercomputers
                                  for Huge Finite Element Variably
                                  Saturated Flow Simulations . . . . . . . 153--168
              Claudia Fohry and   
              Marco Bungart and   
                   Jonas Posner   Fault Tolerance Schemes for Global Load
                                  Balancing in X10 . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--186
               Amine Barkat and   
   Alysson Diniz dos Santos and   
                    Sonia Ikken   Open Source Solutions for Building IaaS
                                  Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--204
            Dorothy Bollman and   
        Alcibiades Bustillo and   
               Einstein Morales   Parallel Watermarking of Images in the
                                  Frequency Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--217

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 16, Number 3, 2015

              Giacomo Cabri and   
                      Emma Hart   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Collective Adaptive Systems  . . . . . . iii--iii
                   Laszlo Varga   On Intention-Propagation-Based
                                  Prediction in Autonomously Self-adapting
                                  Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--232
              Bernat Wiandt and   
              Andras Kokuti and   
                   Vilmos Simon   Application of Collective Movement in
                                  Real Life Scenarios: Overview of Current
                                  Flocking Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . 233--248
            Evangelos Pournaras   Overlay Service Computing --- Modular
                                  and Reconfigurable Collective Adaptive
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--270
             Paul L. Snyder and   
               Giuseppe Valetto   SODAP: Self-Organized Topology
                                  Protection for Superpeer P2P Networks    271--288
        Fatima Zohra Filali and   
               Belabbas Yagoubi   Classifying and Filtering Users by
                                  Similarity Measures for Trust Management
                                  in Cloud Environment . . . . . . . . . . 289--302
           Massimiliano Rak and   
               Mauro Turtur and   
                Umberto Villano   Early Prediction of the Cost of Cloud
                                  Usage for HPC Applications . . . . . . . 303--320
             Amjad Gawanmeh and   
                  Ahmad Alomari   Challenges in Formal Methods for Testing
                                  and Verification of Cloud Computing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--332

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 16, Number 4, 2015

              Hoa Khanh Dam and   
                Jeremy Pitt and   
          Guido Governatori and   
               Takayuki Ito and   
                        Yang Xu   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Principles and Practices in Multi-Agent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
     Jan-Philipp Steghoefer and   
              Hella Seebach and   
     Benedikt Eberhardinger and   
        Michael Huebschmann and   
                  Wolfgang Reif   Combining PosoMAS Method Content with
                                  Scrum: Agile Software Engineering for
                                  Open Self-Organising Systems . . . . . . 333--354
Christopher Konstantin Frantz and   
           Martin K. Purvis and   
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu and   
            Mariusz Nowostawski   Modelling Dynamic Normative
                                  Understanding in Agent Societies . . . . 355--380
               Amine Louati and   
            Joyce El Haddad and   
                 Suzanne Pinson   A Multi-Agent Approach for Trust-based
                                  Service Discovery and Selection in
                                  Social Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--402
             Graham Billiau and   
             Chee Fon Chang and   
                   Aditya Ghose   Multi-Objective Distributed Constraint
                                  Optimization using Semi-Rings  . . . . . 403--422
             Wieslawa Litke and   
                   Marcin Budka   Scaling Beyond One Rack and Sizing of
                                  Hadoop Platform  . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--436
            Davor Davidovic and   
             Matjaz Depolli and   
             Tomislav Lipic and   
               Karolj Skala and   
                   Roman Trobec   Energy Efficiency of Parallel Multicore
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--448
             Ouarda Zedadra and   
               Hamid Seridi and   
          Nicolas Jouandeau and   
              Giancarlo Fortino   An Energy-Aware Algorithm for Large
                                  Scale Foraging Systems . . . . . . . . . 449--466
                 Dana Petcu and   
             Gabriel Iuhasz and   
                 Daniel Pop and   
             Domenico Talia and   
            Jesus Carretero and   
                Radu Prodan and   
           Thomas Fahringer and   
                Ivan Grasso and   
               Ramon Doallo and   
            Maria J. Martin and   
        Basilio B. Fraguela and   
               Roman Trobec and   
             Matjaz Depolli and   
Francisco Almeida Rodriguez and   
         Francisco de Sande and   
           Georges Da Costa and   
          Jean-Marc Pierson and   
      Stergios Anastasiadis and   
        Aristides Bartzokas and   
             Christos Lolis and   
            Pedro Goncalves and   
              Fabrice Brito and   
                     Nick Brown   On Processing Extreme Data . . . . . . . 467--490


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 17, Number 1, 2016

          Pedro Valero Lara and   
         Fernando L. Pelayo and   
                  Johan Jansson   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  High Performance Computing Solutions for
                                  Complex Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
    Fernando Sierra-Pajuelo and   
          Abel Paz-Gallardo and   
                  Antonio Plaza   Performance Optimizations for an
                                  Automatic Target Generation Process in
                                  Hyperspectral Analysis . . . . . . . . . 1--12
      Rodrigo Da Rosa Righi and   
Vladimir Magalhaes Guerreiro and   
         Gustavo Rostirolla and   
   Vinicius Facco Rodrigues and   
   Cristiano Andre Da Costa and   
  Leonardo Dagnino Chiwiacowsky   Using Computational Geometry to Improve
                                  Process Rescheduling on Round-Based
                                  Parallel Applications  . . . . . . . . . 13--32
          Pedro Valero-Lara and   
           Poornima Nookala and   
         Fernando L. Pelayo and   
              Johan Jansson and   
    Serapheim Dimitropoulos and   
                     Ioan Raicu   Many-Task Computing on Many-Core
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--46
              Fred T. Tracy and   
          Lucas A. Walshire and   
            Maureen K. Corcoran   Sensitivity Study of Input Parameters
                                  for Seepage Flow Simulations using
                                  Parallel Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 17, Number 2, 2016

               Karolj Skala and   
               Roman Trobec and   
                     Enis Afgan   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Distributed Computing with Applications
                                  in Bioengineering  . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
              Zoltan Juhasz and   
                 Gyorgy Kozmann   A GPU-based Soft Real-Time System for
                                  Simultaneous EEG Processing and
                                  Visualization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--78
               Sasko Ristov and   
              Kiril Cvetkov and   
                   Marjan Gusev   Implementation of a Horizontal Scalable
                                  Balancer for Dew Computing Services  . . 79--90
            Jedrzej Rybicki and   
         Benedikt von St. Vieth   An Extensible Software-as-a-Service
                                  Solution for Distributed Infrastructures 91--102
                Lukas Forer and   
                 Enis Afgan and   
       Hansi Weissensteiner and   
            Davor Davidovic and   
            Guenther Specht and   
         Florian Kronenberg and   
           Sebastian Schoenherr   Cloudflow --- enabling faster biomedical
                                  pipelines with MapReduce and Spark . . . 103--114
              Shahbaz Memon and   
              Morris Riedel and   
               Shiraz Memon and   
              Chris Koeritz and   
            Andrew Grimshaw and   
              Helmut Neukirchen   Enabling Scalable Data Processing and
                                  Management through Standards-based Job
                                  Execution and the Global Federated File
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--128
                Lamia Allal and   
             Ghalem Belalem and   
           Philippe Dhaussy and   
               Ciprian Teodorov   A Parallel Algorithm for the State Space
                                  Exploration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--142
                Eszter Kail and   
        Krisztian Karoczkai and   
               Peter Kacsuk and   
              Miklos Kozlovszky   Provenance Based Checkpointing Method
                                  for Dynamic Health Care Smart System . . 143--153

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 17, Number 3, 2016

              Kashif Saleem and   
                 Amjad Gawanmeh   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Reliability and Security of e-Health
                                  Information Systems  . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
               Usman Pervez and   
              Asiah Mahmood and   
                Osman Hasan and   
               Khalid Latif and   
                 Amjad Gawanmeh   Improvement Strategies for Device
                                  Interoperability Middleware using Formal
                                  Reliability Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 150--170
         Chandrika Bhardwaj and   
                 Sanjiva Prasad   Pravah: Parameterised Information Flow
                                  Control in e-Health  . . . . . . . . . . 171--188
             Meryeme Ayache and   
            Mohammed Erradi and   
              Ahmed Khoumsi and   
               Bernd Freisleben   Analysis and Verification of XACML
                                  Policies in a Medical Cloud Environment  189--206
                Souad Sadki and   
               Hanan El Bakkali   Resolving Conflicting Privacy Policies
                                  in M-health based on Prioritization  . . 207--226
             Amjad Gawanmeh and   
               Anas Alazzam and   
                   Bobby Mathew   Formal Verification of a Microfluidic
                                  Device for Blood Cell Separation . . . . 227--236
          Christophe Avenel and   
              Pierre Fortin and   
             Mourad Gouicem and   
                    Samia Zaidi   Solving the Table Maker's Dilemma on
                                  Current SIMD Architectures . . . . . . . 237--250
                  Samy Sadi and   
               Belabbas Yagoubi   Communication-aware Approaches for
                                  Transparent Checkpointing in Cloud
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--270

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 17, Number 4, 2016

                     Dana Petcu   Introduction to the Special Issue on New
                                  Approaches for Infrastructure Services   iii--iii
           Valentina Casola and   
   Alessandra De Benedictis and   
           Massimiliano Rak and   
                Umberto Villano   SLA-based Secure Cloud Application
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--284
               Stefan Meyer and   
               John P. Morrison   Impact of Single Parameter Changes on
                                  Ceph Cloud Storage Performance . . . . . 285--298
             Dragi Kimovski and   
            Nishant Saurabh and   
           Vlado Stankovski and   
                    Radu Prodan   Multi-objective Middleware for
                                  Distributed VMI Repositories in
                                  Federated Cloud Environment  . . . . . . 299--312
             Gabriel Iuhasz and   
                 Daniel Pop and   
                    Ioan Dragan   Architecture of a Scalable Platform for
                                  Monitoring Multiple Big Data Frameworks  313--321
                Ioan Dragan and   
       Teodor Florin Fortis and   
                  Marian Neagul   Exposing HPC services in the Cloud: the
                                  CloudLightning Approach  . . . . . . . . 323--330
       Ebrahim Zarei Zefreh and   
             Shahriar Lotfi and   
      Leyli Mohammad Khanli and   
                Jaber Karimpour   Tiling and Scheduling of Three-level
                                  Perfectly Nested Loops with Dependencies
                                  on Heterogeneous Systems . . . . . . . . 331--350
               Ali Farahani and   
               Eslam Nazemi and   
                  Giacomo Cabri   A Self-healing Architecture based on
                                  RAINBOW for Industrial Usage . . . . . . 351--368
               Daniel Langr and   
               Pavel Tvrdik and   
                   Ivan Simecek   AQsort: Scalable Multi-Array In-Place
                                  Sorting with OpenMP  . . . . . . . . . . 369--391


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 18, Number 1, 2017

             Frederic Loulergue   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
            Kazuhiko Kakehi and   
         Kiminori Matsuzaki and   
                    Kento Emoto   Efficient Parallel Tree Reductions on
                                  Distributed Memory Environments  . . . . 1--15
             Kiminori Matsuzaki   Efficient Implementation of Tree
                                  Skeletons on Distributed-Memory Parallel
                                  Computers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--34
             Patrizio Dazzi and   
           Emanuele Carlini and   
           Alessandro Lulli and   
                    Laura Ricci   TELOS: An Approach for Distributed Graph
                                  Processing Based on Overlay Composition  35--49
             Majid Hajibaba and   
                Saed Gorgin and   
                 Mohsen Sharifi   Sequence Similarity Parallelization over
                                  Heterogeneous Computer Clusters Using
                                  Data Parallel Programming Model  . . . . 51--66
             Yousef Seyfari and   
             Shahriar Lotfi and   
                Jaber Karimpour   PVL: Parallelization and Vectorization
                                  of Affine Perfectly Nested-Loops
                                  Considering Data Locality on
                                  Short-Vector Multicore Processors using
                                  Intrinsic Vectorization  . . . . . . . . 67--89
               Ali Farahani and   
               Eslam Nazemi and   
              Giacomo Cabri and   
               Nicola Capodieci   Enabling Autonomic Computing Support for
                                  the JADE Agent Platform  . . . . . . . . 91--103

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 18, Number 2, 2017

          Pedro Valero-Lara and   
             Mawussi Zounon and   
         Maksims Abalenkovs and   
             Fernando L. Pelayo   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  High Performance Computing Solutions for
                                  Complex Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
              Arezoo Jahani and   
          Farnaz Derakhshan and   
          Leyli Mohammad Khanli   ARank: A Multi-agent Based Approach for
                                  Ranking of Cloud Computing Services  . . 105--116
                Zhiliu Yang and   
           Zachary I. Rauen and   
                       Chen Liu   Automatic Tuning on Many-Core Platform
                                  for Energy Efficiency via Support Vector
                                  Machine Enhanced Differential Evolution  117--132
              Robert Dietze and   
            Michael Hofmann and   
                 Gudula Ruenger   Integrating Generic FEM Simulations into
                                  Complex Simulation Applications  . . . . 133--144
         Hrachya Astsatryan and   
             Wahi Narsisian and   
               Georges da Costa   SaaS for Energy Efficient Utilization of
                                  HPC Resources of Linear Algebra
                                  Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--150
          Pedro Valero-Lara and   
     Ezhilmathi Krishnasamy and   
                  Johan Jansson   Towards HPC-Embedded. Case Study: Kalray
                                  and Message-Passing on NoC . . . . . . . 151--160
            Hanan A. Hassan and   
              Aya I. Maiyza and   
                 Walaa M. Sheta   Impact of Process Allocation Strategies
                                  in High Performance Cloud Computing on
                                  Azure Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--176
          Khadija Bousselmi and   
                Zaki Brahmi and   
        Mohamed Mohsen Gammoudi   DR-SWDF: A Dynamically Reconfigurable
                                  Framework for Scientific Workflows
                                  Deployment in the Cloud  . . . . . . . . 177--193

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 18, Number 3, 2017

              Kavita Sharma and   
                 Suman Bala and   
              Himani Bansal and   
            Gulshan Shrivastava   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Secure Solutions for Network in Scalable
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
              Ekta Gandotra and   
               Divya Bansal and   
                  Sanjeev Sofat   A Framework for Generating Malware
                                  Threat Intelligence  . . . . . . . . . . 195--206
              Arzoo Miglani and   
          Tarunpreet Bhatia and   
              Gaurav Sharma and   
            Gulshan Shrivastava   An Energy Efficient and Trust Aware
                                  Framework for Secure Routing in LEACH
                                  for Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . 207--218
         Pulkit Mehndiratta and   
            Shelly Sachdeva and   
                  Devpriya Soni   Detection of Sarcasm in Text Data using
                                  Deep Convolutional Neural Networks . . . 219--228
          Rudra Pratap Ojha and   
              Goutam Sanyal and   
    Pramod Kumar Srivastava and   
                  Kavita Sharma   Design and Analysis of Modified SIQRS
                                  Model for Performance Study of Wireless
                                  Sensor Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--242
        Gulshan Shrivastava and   
                  Prabhat Kumar   Privacy Analysis of Android
                                  Applications: State-of-art and Literary
                                  Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--252
               Ronald A. Olsson   A Note on Correctly Gathering Results
                                  from JR's Concurrent Invocation
                                  Statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--260
             Frederic Loulergue   A BSPlib-style API for Bulk Synchronous
                                  Parallel ML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 18, Number 4, 2017

             Amjad Gawanmeh and   
                  Kashif Saleem   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Communication, Computing, and Networking
                                  in Cyber-Physical Systems  . . . . . . . iii--iii
                 Ngoc T. Le and   
                  Doan B. Hoang   Capability Maturity Model and Metrics
                                  Framework for Cyber Cloud Security . . . 277--290
               Zhengyu Yang and   
              Janki Bhimani and   
                Jiayin Wang and   
                David Evans and   
                    Ningfang Mi   Automatic and Scalable Data Replication
                                  Manager in Distributed Computation and
                                  Storage Infrastructure of Cyber-Physical
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--312
        Irfan A. Siddavatam and   
              Sachin Parekh and   
                 Tanay Shah and   
                     Faruk Kazi   Testing and Validation of Modbus/TCP
                                  Protocol for Secure SCADA Communication
                                  in CPS using Formal Methods  . . . . . . 313--330
              Nader Mohamed and   
         Jameela Al-Jaroodi and   
      Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and   
                    Imad Jawhar   Middleware Challenges for Cyber-Physical
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--346
                 Ali Alwadi and   
             Amjad Gawanmeh and   
               Sazia Parvin and   
             Jamal N. Al-Karaki   Smart Solutions for RFID based Inventory
                                  Management Systems: A Survey . . . . . . 347--360
              Arezoo Jahani and   
          Leyli Mohammad Khanli   MooreCube: A Scalable and Flexible
                                  Architecture for Cloud Computing Data
                                  Centers on Multi-port Servers  . . . . . 361--374
         Karveer B. Manwade and   
             Dinesh B. Kulkarni   Data Flow Analysis of MPI Program Using
                                  Dynamic Analysis Technique with Partial
                                  Execution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--385


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 19, Number 1, 2018

           Artur Malinowski and   
                  Pawel Czarnul   A Solution to Image Processing with
                                  Parallel MPI I/O and Distributed NVRAM
                                  Cache  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
              Shajulin Benedict   SCALE-EA: A Scalability Aware
                                  Performance Tuning Framework for OpenMP
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--30
        Mohammed Benjelloun and   
            El Wardani Dadi and   
              El Mostafa Daoudi   GPU-based Acceleration of Methods based
                                  on Clock Matching Metric for Large Scale
                                  $3$D Shape Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . 31--38
      Ramasubbareddy Somula and   
                     Sasikala R   Round Robin with Load Degree: An
                                  Algorithm for Optimal Cloudlet Discovery
                                  in Mobile Cloud Computing  . . . . . . . 39--52
               Zhengyu Yang and   
              Janki Bhimani and   
                     Yi Yao and   
              Cho-Hsien Lin and   
                Jiayin Wang and   
                Ningfang Mi and   
                       Bo Sheng   AutoAdmin: Automatic and Dynamic
                                  Resource Reservation Admission Control
                                  in Hadoop YARN Clusters  . . . . . . . . 53--68
        Adeel Shiraz Hashmi and   
       Mohammad Najmud Doja and   
                   Tanvir Ahmad   An Optimized Density-based Algorithm for
                                  Anomaly Detection in High Dimensional
                                  Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--77

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 19, Number 2, 2018

          Aneta Karaivanova and   
                 Anastas Mishev   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  E-Infrastructures for Excellent Science:
                                  Advances in Life Sciences, Digital
                                  Cultural Heritage and Climatology  . . . iii--iv
         Hrachya Astsatryan and   
             Hayk Grogoryan and   
          Eliza Gyulgyulyan and   
             Anush Hakobyan and   
             Aram Kocharyan and   
             Wahi Narsisian and   
          Vladimir Sahakyan and   
           Yuri Shoukourian and   
            Rita Abrahamyan and   
      Zarmandukht Petrosyan and   
                  Julien Aligon   Weather Data Visualization and
                                  Analytical Platform  . . . . . . . . . . 79--86
      Teimuraz Davitashvili and   
             Nato Kutaladze and   
             Ramaz Kvatadze and   
   Ramaz Alexander Kvatadze and   
              George Mikuchadze   Effect of Dust Aerosols in Forming the
                                  Regional Climate of Georgia  . . . . . . 87--96
              Neki Frasheri and   
             Emanouil Atanassov   An Analysis for Parallel Wind Simulation
                                  Speedup using OpenFOAM . . . . . . . . . 97--105
             Georgi Gadzhev and   
          Ivelina Georgieva and   
             Kostadin Ganev and   
            Vladimir Ivanov and   
           Nikolay Miloshev and   
          Hristo Chervenkov and   
                Dimiter Syrakov   Climate Applications in a Virtual
                                  Research Environment Platform  . . . . . 107--118
             Bojana Koteska and   
             Verce Manevska and   
             Anastas Mishev and   
                   Ljupco Pejov   Dynamic versus Static Approach to
                                  Theoretical Anharmonic Vibrational
                                  Spectroscopy of Molecular Species
                                  Elevant to Atmospheric Chemistry: A Case
                                  Study of Formic Acid . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
         Hrachya Astsatryan and   
             Wahi Narsisian and   
          Eliza Gyulgyulyan and   
        Vardan Baghdasaryan and   
            Armen Poghosyan and   
      Yevgeni Mamasakhlisov and   
               Peter Wittenburg   An Integrated Web-based Interactive Data
                                  Platform for Molecular Dynamics
                                  Simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--138
             Miljan Bigovic and   
             Luka Filipovic and   
              Zarko Zecevic and   
                  Bozo Krstajic   Modeling and Molecular Dynamics
                                  Simulations Study of Enol-carbonates and
                                  their Derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148
             Bojana Koteska and   
  Maja Simonoska Crcarevska and   
        Marija Glavas Dodov and   
     Jasmina Tonic Ribarska and   
                   Ljupco Pejov   Semiempirical Atom-centered Density
                                  Matrix Propagation Approach to
                                  Temperature-dependent Vibrational
                                  Spectroscopy of Irinotecan . . . . . . . 149--159
    Panayiotis Charalambous and   
              George Artopoulos   Enabling virtual collaboration in
                                  Digital Cultural Heritage in the SEEM
                                  region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--174
         Mohammed Elfarargy and   
                       Amr Rizq   VirMuF: The Virtual Museum Framework . . 175--180
          Vladimir Dimitrov and   
              Stiliyan Stoyanov   Solutions for Data Discovery Service in
                                  a Virtual Research Environment . . . . . 181--187
           Alexandr Golubev and   
           Peter Bogatencov and   
               Grigore Secrieru   DICOM data processing optimization in
                                  medical information systems  . . . . . . 189--201
             Anastas Mishev and   
            Sonja Filiposka and   
              Ognjen Prnjat and   
               Ioannis Liabotis   Improving Service Management for
                                  Federated Resources to Support Virtual
                                  Research Environments  . . . . . . . . . 203--214
           Dusan Vudragovic and   
                  Luka Ilic and   
            Petar Jovanovic and   
          Slobodan Nickovic and   
       Aleksandar Bogojevic and   
                    Antun Balaz   VI-SEEM DREAMCLIMATE Service . . . . . . 215--221

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 19, Number 3, 2018

                   Sasko Ristov   Special Issue on Infrastructures and
                                  Algorithms for Scalable Computing  . . . iii--iv
                Sonia Ikken and   
               Eric Renault and   
            Abdelkamel Tari and   
                  Tahar Kechadi   Exact and Heuristic Data Workflow
                                  Placement Algorithms for Big Data
                                  Computing in Cloud Datacenters . . . . . 223--244
Vengadeswaran Shanmugasundaram and   
Balasundaram Sadhu Ramakrishnan   Significance of Hierarchical and Markov
                                  Clustering in Grouping Aware Data
                                  Placement for Data Intensive
                                  Applications Having Interest Locality    245--258
               Beata Bylina and   
                Jaroslaw Bylina   An Experimental Evaluation of the OpenMP
                                  Thread Mapping for LU Factorisation on
                                  Xeon Phi Coprocessor and on Hybrid
                                  CPU-MIC Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274
               Daniel Langr and   
                   Ivan Simecek   Analysis of Memory Footprints of Sparse
                                  Matrices Partitioned Into
                                  Uniformly-Sized Blocks . . . . . . . . . 275--292
          El Mostafa Daoudi and   
         Abdelmajid Dargham and   
              Aicha Kerfali and   
               Mohammed Khatiri   Reducing the Interprocessors Migrations
                                  of the EKG Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 293--300
              David Sanchez and   
            Oswaldo Solarte and   
             Victor Bucheli and   
                   Hugo Ordonez   Evaluating The Scalability of Big Data
                                  Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--307

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 19, Number 4, 2018

           Rajkumar Rajasekaran   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Mobile Cloud Applications and Challenges iii--iii
     Rama Subbareddy Somula and   
                     Sasikala R   A Survey on Mobile Cloud Computing:
                                  Mobile Computing + Cloud Computing (MCC
                                  = MC + CC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--337
                   Karthi S and   
                        Prabu S   Execution Analysis of Spatial Data
                                  Storage Indexing on Cloud Environment    339--349
                    Prabu S and   
          Gpinath Ganapathy and   
                   Ranjan Goyal   Enhanced Data Security for Public Cloud
                                  Environment with Secured Hybrid
                                  Encryption Authentication Mechanisms . . 351--360
                Jasem M Alostad   Cloud based Dynamic Course Selection
                                  Framework using Network Graphs with Term
                                  Difficulty Estimation  . . . . . . . . . 361--373
                 Belfin R V and   
            Grace Mary Kanaga E   Parallel seed selection method for
                                  overlapping community detection in
                                  social network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--385
            Hussein El Ghor and   
                 Julia Hage and   
              Nizar Hamadeh and   
             Rafic Hage Chehade   Energy-Efficient Real-Time Scheduling
                                  Algorithm for Fault-Tolerant Autonomous
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--400
              Tomasz Gajger and   
                  Pawel Czarnul   Modelling and simulation of GPU
                                  processing in the MERPSYS environment    401--422
          Fred Thomas Tracy and   
             Thomas C. Oppe and   
            Maureen K. Corcoran   A comparison of MPI and co-array FORTRAN
                                  for large finite element variably
                                  saturated flow simulations . . . . . . . 423--432


Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 20, Number 1, 2019

             Rosilah Hassan and   
    Khairol Amali Bin Ahmad and   
                  Khaleel Ahmad   Introduction to the Special Issue on
                                  Opportunistic Network and its Security
                                  Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
                 Ritu Nigam and   
        Deepak Kumar Sharma and   
                Satbir Jain and   
              Sarthak Gupta and   
                   Shilpa Ghosh   Bonding Based Technique for message
                                  forwarding in Social Opportunistic
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
          Md. Sharif Hossen and   
        Muhammad Sajjadur Rahim   Analysis of Delay-Tolerant Routing
                                  Protocols using the Impact of Mobility
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26
        Deepak Kumar Sharma and   
                Deepika Kukreja   Establishing Reliability for Efficient
                                  Routing in Opportunistic Networks  . . . 27--40
          Pawan Singh Mehra and   
       Mohammad Najmud Doja and   
                    Bashir Alam   Enhanced Clustering Algorithm based on
                                  Fuzzy Logic (E-CAFL) for WSN E-CAFL for
                                  Homogeneous WSN  . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--54
               Rajan Sharma and   
       Balwinder Singh Sohi and   
                   Nitin Mittal   Zone-based Energy Efficient Routing
                                  Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks   55--70
           Arvinda Kushwaha and   
                     Mohd Amjad   A Particle Swarm Optimization Based Load
                                  Scheduling Algorithm in Cloud Platform
                                  for Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . 71--82
          Musaeed Abouaroek and   
                  Khaleel Ahmad   Node Authentication Using NTRU Algorithm
                                  in Opportunistic Network . . . . . . . . 83--92
                 Suman Bala and   
              Gaurav Sharma and   
              Himani Bansal and   
              Tarunpreet Bhatia   On the Security of Authenticated Group
                                  Key Agreement Protocols  . . . . . . . . 93--99
                   Pankhuri and   
                Akash Sinha and   
        Gulshan Shrivastava and   
                  Prabhat Kumar   A Pattern-Based Multi-Factor
                                  Authentication System  . . . . . . . . . 101--112
      Asif Iqbal Hajamydeen and   
                Nur Izura Udzir   A Detailed Description on Unsupervised
                                  Heterogeneous Anomaly Based Intrusion
                                  Detection Framework  . . . . . . . . . . 113--160
             Chanchal Kumar and   
           Mohammad Najmud Doja   A Secure Structure for Hiding
                                  Information in a Cryptosystem based on
                                  Machine-learning Techniques and
                                  Content-based Optimization using
                                  Portfolio Selection Data . . . . . . . . 161--180
    Hamza Mutaher Alshameri and   
                  Pradeep Kumar   An Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proof Based
                                  Identification Scheme for Securing
                                  Software Defined Network . . . . . . . . 181--189

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 20, Number 2, 2019

               Anand Nayyar and   
            Rudra Rameshwar and   
    Pijush Kanti Dutta Pramanik   Special Issue on Recent Trends and
                                  Future of Fog and Edge Computing,
                                  Services and Enabling Technologies
                                  Editorial File . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--vi
                Sujata Dash and   
            Sitanath Biswas and   
           Debajit Banerjee and   
                 Atta UR Rahman   Edge and Fog Computing in Healthcare ---
                                  A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206
            Parminder Singh and   
                Pooja Gupta and   
                    Kiran Jyoti   Triangulation Resource Provisioning for
                                  Web Applications in Cloud Computing: A
                                  Profit-Aware Approach  . . . . . . . . . 207--222
                Akshi Kumar and   
               Abhilasha Sharma   Ontology Driven Social Big Data
                                  Analytics for Fog enabled Sentic-Social
                                  Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--236
               Avinash Kaur and   
                Pooja Gupta and   
                 Manpreet Singh   Hybrid Balanced Task Clustering
                                  Algorithm for Scientific Workflows in
                                  Cloud Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--258
Pijush Kanti Dutta Pramanik and   
                Saurabh Pal and   
            Prasenjit Choudhury   Green and Sustainable High-Performance
                                  Computing with Smartphone Crowd
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--284
                A. Dhanapal and   
                P. Nithyanandam   The Slow HTTP Distributed Denial of
                                  Service Attack Detection in Cloud  . . . 285--298
               Mandeep Kaur and   
                   Rajni Mohana   Static Load Balancing Technique for
                                  Geographically Partitioned Public Cloud  299--316
                    . Mukta and   
                   Neeraj Gupta   Analytical Available Bandwidth
                                  Estimation in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
                                  Considering Mobility in $3$-Dimensional
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--334
               R. Sridharan and   
                      S. Domnic   Placement Strategy for
                                  Intercommunicating Tasks of an Elastic
                                  Request in Fog-Cloud Environment . . . . 335--348
             S. Velliangiri and   
               R. Rajagopal and   
                 P. Karthikeyan   Trust Factor Based Key Distribution
                                  Protocol in Hybrid Cloud Environment . . 349--364
         Vivek Kumar Prasad and   
          Madhuri D Bhavsar and   
                  Sudeep Tanwar   Influence of Montoring: Fog and Edge
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--376
               Avinash Kaur and   
                Pooja Gupta and   
             Manpreet Singh and   
                   Anand Nayyar   Data Placement in Era of Cloud
                                  Computing: a Survey, Taxonomy and Open
                                  Research Issues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--398
            Parminder Singh and   
                Pooja Gupta and   
                Kiran Jyoti and   
                   Anand Nayyar   Research on Auto-Scaling of Web
                                  Applications in Cloud: Survey, Trends
                                  and Future Directions  . . . . . . . . . 399--432
          Simar Preet Singh and   
               Anand Nayyar and   
              Harpreet Kaur and   
                    Ashu Singla   Dynamic Task Scheduling using Balanced
                                  VM Allocation Policy for Fog Computing
                                  Platforms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--456

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
Volume 20, Number 3, 2019

          Shajulin Benedict and   
                 Michael Gerndt   Introduction to the Special Issue on IoT
                                  Cloud Solutions for Societal
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iii
          Syed Rameem Zahra and   
         Mohammad Ahsan Chishti   Assesing the Services, Security
                                  Threaths, Challenges and Solutions in
                                  the Internet of Things . . . . . . . . . 457--484
              M Naveenkumar and   
                       S Domnic   Ensemble Spatio-Temporal Distance Net
                                  for Skeleton Based Action Recognition    485--494
            Amine Meghabber and   
             Lakhdar Loukil and   
            Richard Olejnik and   
   Abou El Hassan Benyamina and   
               Abdelkader Aroui   Virtual Channel aware Scheduling for
                                  Real Time Data-Flows on Network on-Chip  495--510
               Nikita Singh and   
                   Manu Vardhan   Blockchain based e-Cheque Clearing
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--526
                Walid Kadri and   
               Belabbas Yagoubi   Optimized Scheduling Approach for
                                  Scientific Applications Based on
                                  Clustering in Cloud Computing
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--540
            Rihab Derouiche and   
                Zaki Brahmi and   
  Mohammed Mohsen Gammoundi and   
         Sebastian Garcia Galan   E-DPSIW-FCA: Energy aware FCA-based Data
                                  Placement Strategy for Intensive
                                  Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--562
              Lazhar Ourlis and   
                 Djamel Bellala   SIMD Implementation of the Aho--Corasick
                                  Algorithm using Intel AVX2 . . . . . . . 563--576
              Jyotsna Verma and   
               Nishtha Kesswani   AMIGM: Animal Migration Inspired Group
                                  Mobility Model for Mobile Ad hoc
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--590