Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 28

Volume 28, Number 1, January 2012

Regular papers

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  Sandro Fiore, Alessandro Negro, Giovanni Aloisio:
  The Climate-G Portal: The context, key features and a multi-dimensional analysis. 1-8
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  Panagiotis C. Kokkinos, Emmanouel A. Varvarigos:
  Scheduling efficiency of resource information aggregation in grid networks. 9-23
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  Jay Smith, Edwin K. P. Chong, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Howard Jay Siegel:
  Overlay network resource allocation using a decentralized market-based approach. 24-35

Special section: Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2010)

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  Ivona Brandic, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Special section: Recent advances in utility and cloud computing. 36-38
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  Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Jörn Altmann:
  Cost-benefit analysis of an SLA mapping approach for defining standardized Cloud computing goods. 39-47
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  Ralph Vigne, Juergen Mangler, Erich Schikuta, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma:
  A structured marketplace for arbitrary services. 48-57
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  Christian Vecchiola, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Dileban Karunamoorthy, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Deadline-driven provisioning of resources for scientific applications in hybrid clouds with Aneka. 58-65
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  Ana Juan Ferrer, Francisco Hernández-Rodriguez, Johan Tordsson, Erik Elmroth, Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Csilla Zsigri, Raül Sirvent, Jordi Guitart, Rosa M. Badia, Karim Djemame, Wolfgang Ziegler, Theo Dimitrakos, Srijith K. Nair, George Kousiouris, Kleopatra Konstanteli, Theodora A. Varvarigou, Benoit Hudzia, Alexander Kipp, Stefan Wesner, Marcelo Corrales, Nikolaus Forgó, Tabassum Sharif, Craig Sheridan:
  OPTIMIS: A holistic approach to cloud service provisioning. 66-77
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  Yohei Matsuhashi, Takahiro Shinagawa, Yoshiaki Ishii, Nobuyuki Hirooka, Kazuhiko Kato:
  Transparent VPN failure recovery with virtualization. 78-84
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  Antonio Celesti, Maria Fazio, Massimo Villari, Antonio Puliafito:
  Virtual machine provisioning through satellite communications in federated Cloud environments. 85-93
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  Amit Nathani, Sanjay Chaudhary, Gaurav Somani:
  Policy based resource allocation in IaaS cloud. 94-103
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  Hamoun Ghanbari, Bradley Simmons, Marin Litoiu, Gabriel Iszlai:
  Feedback-based optimization of a private cloud. 104-111
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  Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Shrideep Pallickara, Milija Zupanski:
  Towards efficient data search and subsetting of large-scale atmospheric datasets. 112-118
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  Nitesh Maheshwari, Radheshyam Nanduri, Vasudeva Varma:
  Dynamic energy efficient data placement and cluster reconfiguration algorithm for MapReduce framework. 119-127
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  Kathleen Ericson, Shrideep Pallickara:
  Adaptive heterogeneous language support within a cloud runtime. 128-135
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  Jérôme Gallard, Adrien Lebre, Christine Morin, Thomas J. Naughton, Stephen L. Scott, Geoffroy Vallée:
  Architecture for the next generation system management tools. 136-146
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  Suraj Pandey, William Voorsluys, Sheng Niu, Ahsan Khandoker, Rajkumar Buyya:
  An autonomic cloud environment for hosting ECG data analysis services. 147-154
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  Sadeka Islam, Jacky Keung, Kevin Lee, Anna Liu:
  Empirical prediction models for adaptive resource provisioning in the cloud. 155-162
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  Eugen Feller, John Mehnert-Spahn, Michael Schöttner, Christine Morin:
  Independent checkpointing in a heterogeneous grid environment. 163-170
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  Arijit Mukherjee, Paul Watson:
  Case for dynamic deployment in a grid-based distributed query processor. 171-183
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  Satish Narayana Srirama, Pelle Jakovits, Eero Vainikko:
  Adapting scientific computing problems to clouds using MapReduce. 184-192
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  Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Kleopatra Konstanteli, Stefan Waldschmidt, George Kousiouris, Gregory Katsaros, Andreas Menychtas, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Theodora A. Varvarigou:
  Workflow management for soft real-time interactive applications in virtualized environments. 193-209

Special section: High Performance Biometrics Recognition Algorithms and Systems

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  Muhammad Khurram Khan:
  High performance biometrics recognition algorithms and systems. 210-211
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  Xi Chen, Jiashu Zhang:
  A novel maximum margin neighborhood preserving embedding for face recognition. 212-217
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  Hyung Gu Lee, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Ho Gi Jung, Jaihie Kim:
  A secure biometric discretization scheme for face template protection. 218-231
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  Lijun Yan, Jeng-Shyang Pan, Shu-Chuan Chu, Muhammad Khurram Khan:
  Adaptively weighted sub-directional two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis for face recognition. 232-235
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  Eryun Liu, Heng Zhao, Jimin Liang, Liaojun Pang, Hongtao Chen, Jie Tian:
  Random local region descriptor (RLRD): A new method for fixed-length feature representation of fingerprint image and its application to template protection. 236-243
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  Hong Huang, Jianwei Li, Jiamin Liu:
  Enhanced semi-supervised local Fisher discriminant analysis for face recognition. 244-253
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  Gaurav Bhatnagar, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Balasubramanian Raman:
  Fractional dual tree complex wavelet transform and its application to biometric security during communication and transmission. 254-267
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  Mariano Fons, Francesc Fons, Enrique Cantó:
  Biometrics-based consumer applications driven by reconfigurable hardware architectures. 268-286
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  G. S. Badrinath, Phalguni Gupta:
  Palmprint based recognition system using phase-difference information. 287-305
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  Fagen Li, Muhammad Khurram Khan:
  A biometric identity-based signcryption scheme. 306-310
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  Javier Galbally, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Julian Fiérrez, Javier Ortega-Garcia:
  A high performance fingerprint liveness detection method based on quality related features. 311-321
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  Chih-Yu Hsu, Hao-Feng Wang, Hui-Ching Wang, Kuo-Kun Tseng:
  Automatic extraction of face contours in images and videos. 322-335

Volume 28, Number 2, February 2012

Regular papers

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  Tehmina Amjad, Muhammad Sher, Ali Daud:
  A survey of dynamic replication strategies for improving data availability in data grids. 337-349
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  Yuhui Deng, Xiaohua Meng, Jipeng Zhou:
  Self-similarity: Behind workload reshaping and prediction. 350-357
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  Johan Tordsson, Rubén S. Montero, Rafael Moreno-Vozmediano, Ignacio Martín Llorente:
  Cloud brokering mechanisms for optimized placement of virtual machines across multiple providers. 358-367

Special section: Green Computing

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  Rongbo Zhu, Zhili Sun, Jiankun Hu:
  Special section: Green computing. 368-370
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  Brian Dougherty, Jules White, Douglas C. Schmidt:
  Model-driven auto-scaling of green cloud computing infrastructure. 371-378
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  Jianxin Li, Bo Li, Tianyu Wo, Chunming Hu, Jinpeng Huai, Lu Liu, K. P. Lam:
  CyberGuarder: A virtualization security assurance architecture for green cloud computing. 379-390
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  Jingcheng Gao, Yang Xiao, Jing Liu, Wei Liang, C. L. Philip Chen:
  A survey of communication/networking in Smart Grids. 391-404
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  Ward Van Heddeghem, Willem Vereecken, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester:
  Distributed computing for carbon footprint reduction by exploiting low-footprint energy availability. 405-414
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  Michele Mazzucco, Dmytro Dyachuk:
  Balancing electricity bill and performance in server farms with setup costs. 415-426
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  Wen Ji, Jiangchuan Liu, Min Chen, Yiqiang Chen:
  Power-efficient video encoding on resource-limited systems: A game-theoretic approach. 427-436
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  Steven S. W. Lee, Po-Kai Tseng, Alice Chen:
  Link weight assignment and loop-free routing table update for link state routing protocols in energy-aware internet. 437-445
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  Kai Lin, Min Chen, Sherali Zeadally, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues:
  Balancing energy consumption with mobile agents in wireless sensor networks. 446-456
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  Ramon Bertran, Yolanda Becerra, David Carrera, Vicenç Beltran, Marc González, Xavier Martorell, Nacho Navarro, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé:
  Energy accounting for shared virtualized environments under DVFS using PMC-based power models. 457-468
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  Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, Haikun Liu:
  Towards a green cluster through dynamic remapping of virtual machines. 469-477
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  Alexander Kipp, Tao Jiang, Mariagrazia Fugini, Ioan Salomie:
  Layered Green Performance Indicators. 478-489

Volume 28, Number 3, March 2012

Regular papers

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  Valliyammai Chinnaiah, Thamarai Selvi Somasundaram:
  A Grid resource brokering strategy based on resource and network performance in Grid. 491-499
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  Gergely Sipos:
  Protecting the consistency of workflow applications in collaborative development environments. 500-512
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  Reza Entezari-Maleki, Ali Movaghar:
  A probabilistic task scheduling method for grid environments. 513-524

Special section: Infrastructure and Network-aware Grids and Service Oriented Architectures

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  Theodora A. Varvarigou, Anastasios D. Doulamis, Konstantinos Tserpes, Dimosthenis Kyriazis:
  Infrastructure and Network-aware Grids and Service Oriented Architectures. 525-526
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  Stein Desmet, Bruno Volckaert, Filip De Turck:
  Design of a service oriented architecture for efficient resource allocation in media environments. 527-532
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  Ki-Won Yeom, Ji-Hyung Park:
  Morphological approach for autonomous and adaptive systems based on self-reconfigurable modular agents. 533-543
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  Vassiliki Andronikou, Konstantinos Mamouras, Konstantinos Tserpes, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Theodora A. Varvarigou:
  Dynamic QoS-aware data replication in grid environments based on data "importance". 544-553
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  Thomas Voith, Karsten Oberle, Manuel Stein:
  Quality of service provisioning for distributed data center inter-connectivity enabled by network virtualization. 554-562
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  René Brunner, Agustín C. Caminero, Omer F. Rana, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro:
  Network-aware summarisation for resource discovery in P2P-content networks. 563-572
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  P. Victer Paul, N. Saravanan, S. K. V. Jayakumar, P. Dhavachelvan, Ramachandran Baskaran:
  QoS enhancements for global replication management in peer to peer networks. 573-582
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  Dimitrios Zissis, Dimitrios Lekkas:
  Addressing cloud computing security issues. 583-592
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  Vassilios C. Vescoukis, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Sofia Karagiorgou:
  A service oriented architecture for decision support systems in environmental crisis management. 593-604
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  Anastasios D. Doulamis, Nikolaos F. Matsatsinis:
  Visual understanding industrial workflows under uncertainty on distributed service oriented architectures. 605-617

Volume 28, Number 4, April 2012

Regular papers

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  Seng Wai Loke:
  Supporting ubiquitous sensor-cloudlets and context-cloudlets: Programming compositions of context-aware systems for mobile users. 619-632
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  Luis Rodero-Merino, Eddy Caron, Adrian Muresan, Frédéric Desprez:
  Using clouds to scale grid resources: An economic model. 633-646
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  K. Vivekanandan, D. Ramyachitra:
  Bacteria foraging optimization for protein sequence analysis on the grid. 647-656
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  Yongsheng Hao, Guanfeng Liu, Na Wen:
  An enhanced load balancing mechanism based on deadline control on GridSim. 657-665
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  Nazanin Saadat, Amir Masoud Rahmani:
  PDDRA: A new pre-fetching based dynamic data replication algorithm in data grids. 666-681
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  Leyli Mohammad Khanli, Shiva Razzaghzadeh, Sadegh Vahabzadeh Zargari:
  A new step toward load balancing based on competency rank and transitional phases in Grid networks. 682-688
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  Giuseppe Pirrò, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio:
  A DHT-based semantic overlay network for service discovery. 689-707

Volume 28, Number 5, May 2012

Regular papers

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  Sasmita Kumari Nayak, Sasmita Kumari Padhy, Siba Prasada Panigrahi:
  A novel algorithm for dynamic task scheduling. 709-717
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  Iñigo Goiri, Josep Lluis Berral, Josep Oriol Fitó, Ferran Julià, Ramon Nou, Jordi Guitart, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres:
  Energy-efficient and multifaceted resource management for profit-driven virtualized data centers. 718-731
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  Rune Rasmussen, Ross Brown:
  A deductive system for proving workflow models from operational procedures. 732-742

Special section: Energy efficiency in large-scale distributed systems - Guest Editors: Tuan Anh Trinh, Helmut Hlavacs and Domenico Talia

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  Tuan Anh Trinh, Helmut Hlavacs, Domenico Talia:
  Energy efficiency in large-scale distributed systems. 743-744
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  Hadil Al-Daoud, Issam Al-Azzoni, Douglas G. Down:
  Power-aware linear programming based scheduling for heterogeneous computer clusters. 745-754
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  Anton Beloglazov, Jemal H. Abawajy, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Energy-aware resource allocation heuristics for efficient management of data centers for Cloud computing. 755-768
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  Damien Borgetto, Henri Casanova, Georges Da Costa, Jean-Marc Pierson:
  Energy-aware service allocation. 769-779
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  Zhixin Liu, Qingchao Zheng, Liang Xue, Xinping Guan:
  A distributed energy-efficient clustering algorithm with improved coverage in wireless sensor networks. 780-790
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  Dang Minh Quan, Federico Mezza, Domenico Sannelli, Raffaele Giafreda:
  T-Alloc: A practical energy efficient resource allocation algorithm for traditional data centers. 791-800
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  Zhenghua Xue, Xiaoshe Dong, Leijun Hu, Jianhui Li:
  A performance and energy optimization mechanism for cooperation-oriented multiple server clusters. 801-810
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  Rajarathinam Jeyarani, N. Nagaveni, Rajarathinam Vasanth Ram:
  Design and implementation of adaptive power-aware virtual machine provisioner (APA-VMP) using swarm intelligence. 811-821

Volume 28, Number 6, June 2012

Regular papers

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  Salekul Islam, Jean-Charles Grégoire:
  Giving users an edge: A flexible Cloud model and its application for multimedia. 823-832
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  Md. Tanzim Khorshed, A. B. M. Shawkat Ali, Saleh A. Wasimi:
  A survey on gaps, threat remediation challenges and some thoughts for proactive attack detection in cloud computing. 833-851

Special section: Volunteer Computing and Desktop Grids Guest Editors: Derrick Kondo and Bahman Javadi

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  Derrick Kondo, Bahman Javadi:
  Preface to the special issue on volunteer computing and desktop grids. 852-853
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  Karthick Ramachandran, Hanan Lutfiyya, Mark Perry:
  Decentralized approach to resource availability prediction using group availability in a P2P desktop grid. 854-860
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  Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Christian Vecchiola, Dileban Karunamoorthy, Rajkumar Buyya:
  The Aneka platform and QoS-driven resource provisioning for elastic applications on hybrid Clouds. 861-870
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  Zoltán Farkas, Péter Kacsuk:
  Evaluation of hierarchical desktop grid scheduling algorithms. 871-880
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  Alejandro Calderón, Félix García Carballeira, Borja Bergua, Luis Miguel Sánchez, Jesús Carretero:
  Expanding the volunteer computing scenario: A novel approach to use parallel applications on volunteer computing. 881-889
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  Yuebin Bai, Yanwen Ju:
  MOVE: A mobile personalized virtual computing environment. 890-899

Special section: Recent Advances in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

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  Ahmed Yassin Al-Dubai, Xue Liu, Yulei Wu:
  Editorial to special issue: Recent advances in mobile and ubiquitous computing. 900-901
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  Marisol García-Valls, Alejandro Alonso, Juan Antonio de la Puente:
  A dual-band priority assignment algorithm for dynamic QoS resource management. 902-912
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  Baokang Zhao, Dan Wang, Zili Shao, Jiannong Cao, Jinshu Su:
  Privacy aware publishing of successive location information in sensor networks. 913-922
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  Charilaos C. Zarakovitis, Qiang Ni:
  A performance comparative study on the implementation methods for OFDMA cross-layer optimization. 923-929
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  Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, Linchen Yu:
  A novel data replication mechanism in P2P VoD system. 930-939
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  Yingwei Jin, Lulu Sun, Yanming Shen, Keqiu Li, Geyong Min:
  A highly available spectrum allocation service model in dynamic spectrum market. 940-946
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  Xingang Liu, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Kwanghoon Sohn:
  High-speed inter-view frame mode decision procedure for multi-view video coding. 947-956
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  Jianliang Ma, Chunhao Wang, Baozhong Yu, Tianzhou Chen:
  Global register alias table: Boosting sequential program on multi-core. 957-964

Volume 28, Number 7, July 2012

Regular papers

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  Ariel Quezada-Pina, Andrei Tchernykh, José Luis González-García, Adan Hirales-Carbajal, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Alcaraz, Uwe Schwiegelshohn, Ramin Yahyapour, Vanessa Miranda-López:
  Adaptive parallel job scheduling with resource admissible allocation on two-level hierarchical grids. 965-976
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  Georgios L. Stavrinides, Helen D. Karatza:
  Scheduling real-time DAGs in heterogeneous clusters by combining imprecise computations and bin packing techniques for the exploitation of schedule holes. 977-988
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  Wei-Chang Yeh, Shang-Chia Wei:
  Economic-based resource allocation for reliable Grid-computing service based on Grid Bank. 989-1002

Special section: Quality of Service in Grid and Cloud Computing

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  Anne E. James, Weiming Shen:
  Special Section: QoS in Grid and Cloud. 1003-1004
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  Alberto Sánchez, Jesús Montes, María S. Pérez, Toni Cortes:
  An autonomic framework for enhancing the quality of data grid services. 1005-1016
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  Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Marco Aurélio Stelmar Netto, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Ivona Brandic, Rajkumar Buyya, César A. F. De Rose:
  Towards autonomic detection of SLA violations in Cloud infrastructures. 1017-1029
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  Fang Dong, Junzhou Luo, Aibo Song, Jiuxin Cao, Jun Shen:
  An effective data aggregation based adaptive long term CPU load prediction mechanism on computational grid. 1030-1044
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  Ming-Chang Lee, Fang-Yie Leu, Ying-Ping Chen:
  PFRF: An adaptive data replication algorithm based on star-topology data grids. 1045-1057
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  Luis Tomás, Agustín C. Caminero, Omer F. Rana, Carmen Carrión, María Blanca Caminero:
  A GridWay-based autonomic network-aware metascheduler. 1058-1069
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  Norman W. Paton, Marcelo A. T. Aragão, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes:
  Utility-driven adaptive query workload execution. 1070-1079
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  Min Liu, Mingrui Wang, Weiming Shen, Nan Luo, Junwei Yan:
  A quality of service (QoS)-aware execution plan selection approach for a service composition process. 1080-1089
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  Neeraj Kumar, Rahat Iqbal, Naveen K. Chilamkurti:
  Capacity and load-aware service discovery with service selection in peer-to-peer grids. 1090-1099
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  Tiejiang Liu, Tun Lu, Wei Wang, Qi Wang, Zhenyu Liu, Ning Gu, Xianghua Ding:
  SDMS-O: A service deployment management system for optimization in clouds while guaranteeing users' QoS requirements. 1100-1109
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  Guohua You, Ying Zhao:
  A weighted-fair-queuing (WFQ)-based dynamic request scheduling approach in a multi-core system. 1110-1120
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  Kashif Munir, Michael Welzl, Marcelo Pasin, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet:
  Combining explicit admission control and congestion control for predictable data transfers in grids. 1121-1132
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  Reda Albodour, Anne E. James, Norlaily Yaacob:
  High level QoS-driven model for Grid applications in a simulated environment. 1133-1144
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  Kian Farsandaj, Chen Ding:
  Scatter/Gather browsing of web service QoS data. 1145-1154

Volume 28, Number 8, October 2012

Regular papers

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  Xiaoyu Yang, Bassem I. Nasser, Mike Surridge, Stuart E. Middleton:
  A business-oriented Cloud federation model for real-time applications. 1158-1167
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  Ahcène Bendjoudi, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi:
  Hierarchical branch and bound algorithm for computational grids. 1168-1176
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  Ligang He, Chenlin Huang, Kewei Duan, Kenli Li, Hao Chen, Jianhua Sun, Stephen A. Jarvis:
  Modeling and analyzing the impact of authorization on workflow executions. 1177-1193
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  Matthan W. A. Caan, Shayan Shahand, Frans M. Vos, Antoine H. C. van Kampen, Sílvia D. Olabarriaga:
  Evolution of grid-based services for Diffusion Tensor Image analysis. 1194-1204
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  Amin Shokripour, Mohamed Othman, Hamidah Ibrahim, Shamala Subramaniam:
  New method for scheduling heterogeneous multi-installment systems. 1205-1216
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  Yi Luo, D. Manivannan:
  HOPE: A Hybrid Optimistic checkpointing and selective Pessimistic mEssage logging protocol for large scale distributed systems. 1217-1235

Special section: Trusting Software Behavior Guest Editor: Gyungho Lee

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  Gyungho Lee:
  Special section: Trusting software behavior. 1236-1237
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  Andrew G. West, Jian Chang, Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian, Insup Lee:
  Trust in collaborative web applications. 1238-1251
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  Kyungtae Kim, Changwoo Pyo:
  Securing heap memory by data pointer encoding. 1252-1257
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  Hossain Shahriar, Mohammad Zulkernine:
  Trustworthiness testing of phishing websites: A behavior model-based approach. 1258-1271
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  Sung Deok Cha, Junbeom Yoo:
  A safety-focused verification using software fault trees. 1272-1282

Special section: Economics of Computing Services Guest Editors: Jörn Altmann, Omer Rana and Rajkumar Buyya

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  Jörn Altmann, Omer F. Rana, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Preface of special issue on the economics of computing services. 1283-1284
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  Konstantinos Tserpes, Fotis Aisopos, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Theodora A. Varvarigou:
  A recommender mechanism for service selection in service-oriented environments. 1285-1294
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  Iñigo Goiri, Ferran Julià, Josep Oriol Fitó, Mario Macías, Jordi Guitart:
  Supporting CPU-based guarantees in cloud SLAs via resource-level QoS metrics. 1295-1302
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  Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi, Liviu Dan Serban, Cristian Marius Litan:
  A time-constrained SLA negotiation strategy in competitive computational grids. 1303-1315
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  Ioan Petri, Omer F. Rana, Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi:
  Service level agreement as a complementary currency in peer-to-peer markets. 1316-1327
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  Juthasit Rohitratana, Jörn Altmann:
  Impact of pricing schemes on a market for Software-as-a-Service and perpetual software. 1328-1339
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  Claudio Cacciari, Daniel Mallmann, Csilla Zsigri, Francesco D'Andria, Björn Hagemeier, Angela Rumpl, Wolfgang Ziegler, Josep Martrat:
  SLA-based management of software licenses as web service resources in distributed computing infrastructures. 1340-1349
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  Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Christian Vecchiola, Rajkumar Buyya:
  A coordinator for scaling elastic applications across multiple clouds. 1350-1362