Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 29

Volume 29, Number 1, January 2013

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  Malek Smaoui, Marc Garbey:
  Improving volunteer computing scheduling for evolutionary algorithms. 1-14
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  Francisco José Esteban, David Díaz, Pilar Hernández, Juan Antonio Caballero, Gabriel Dorado, Sergio Gálvez:
  Direct approaches to exploit many-core architecture in bioinformatics. 15-26
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  Humphrey Waita Njogu, Jiawei Luo, Jane Nduta Kiere, Damien Hanyurwimfura:
  A comprehensive vulnerability based alert management approach for large networks. 27-45
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  Rosy Aoun, Chinwe E. Abosi, Elias A. Doumith, Reza Nejabati, Maurice Gagnaire, Dimitra Simeonidou:
  Towards an optimized abstracted topology design in cloud environment. 46-60
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  Javier Palanca Cámara, Martí Navarro, Ana García-Fornes, Vicente Julián:
  Deadline prediction scheduling based on benefits. 61-73
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  Xavier León, Leandro Navarro:
  A Stackelberg game to derive the limits of energy savings for the allocation of data center resources. 74-83
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  Niroshinie Fernando, Seng Wai Loke, J. Wenny Rahayu:
  Mobile cloud computing: A survey. 84-106
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  Chaoyi Zhang, Muqing Wu, Linlin Luan:
  An optimal PSO distributed precoding algorithm in QRD-based multi-relay system. 107-113
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  John D. Garofalakis, Eleftherios Stergiou:
  An analytical model for the performance evaluation of multistage interconnection networks with two class priorities. 114-129
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  Per-Olov Östberg, Daniel Espling, Erik Elmroth:
  Decentralized scalable fairshare scheduling. 130-143
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  Per-Olov Östberg, Erik Elmroth:
  GJMF - a composable service-oriented grid job management framework. 144-157
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  Saeid Abrishami, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Dick H. J. Epema:
  Deadline-constrained workflow scheduling algorithms for Infrastructure as a Service Clouds. 158-169
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  Nithiapidary Muthuvelu, Christian Vecchiola, Ian Chai, Eswaran Chikkannan, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Task granularity policies for deploying bag-of-task applications on global grids. 170-181
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  Gaurav Bhatnagar, Q. M. Jonathan Wu:
  Biometrics inspired watermarking based on a fractional dual tree complex wavelet transform. 182-195
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  Mais Nijim, Xiao Qin, Meikang Qiu, Kenli Li:
  An adaptive energy-conserving strategy for parallel disk systems. 196-207
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  Michal Witkowski, Ariel Oleksiak, Tomasz Piontek, Jan Weglarz:
  Practical power consumption estimation for real life HPC applications. 208-217
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  Roberto R. Expósito, Guillermo L. Taboada, Sabela Ramos, Juan Touriño, Ramon Doallo:
  Performance analysis of HPC applications in the cloud. 218-229
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  Michael Kluge, Stephen C. Simms, Thomas William, Robert Henschel, Andy Georgi, Christian Meyer, Matthias S. Müller, Craig A. Stewart, Wolfgang Wünsch, Wolfgang E. Nagel:
  Performance and quality of service of data and video movement over a 100 Gbps testbed. 230-240

Special section: AIRCC-NetCoM 2009; Guest Editors: Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Michal Wozniak

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  Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Michal Wozniak:
  Special section on invited papers from NetCoM-2009. 241
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  Grzegorz Chmaj, Krzysztof Walkowiak:
  A P2P computing system for overlay networks. 242-249
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  Álvaro Herrero, Martí Navarro, Emilio Corchado, Vicente Julián:
  RT-MOVICAB-IDS: Addressing real-time intrusion detection. 250-261
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  M. K. Kavitha Devi, P. Venkatesh:
  Smoothing approach to alleviate the meager rating problem in collaborative recommender systems. 262-270

Special section: Clouds and Service-Oriented Architectures; Guest Editor: Lu Liu and Jie Xu

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  Lu Liu, Jie Xu:
  Clouds and service-oriented architectures. 271-272
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  Javier Espadas, Arturo Molina, Guillermo Jiménez, Martín Molina, Raúl Ramírez, David Concha:
  A tenant-based resource allocation model for scaling Software-as-a-Service applications over cloud computing infrastructures. 273-286
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  ZhangBing Zhou, Walid Gaaloul, Lei Shu, Samir Tata, Sami Bhiri:
  Assessing the replaceability of service protocols in mediated service interactions. 287-299
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  Yang Liu, Maozhen Li, Nasullah Khalid Alham, Suhel Hammoud:
  HSim: A MapReduce simulator in enabling Cloud Computing. 300-308
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  Xicheng Lu, Huaimin Wang, Ji Wang, Jie Xu, Dongsheng Li:
  Internet-based Virtual Computing Environment: Beyond the data center as a computer. 309-322
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  Youhui Zhang, Yanhua Li, Weimin Zheng:
  Automatic software deployment using user-level virtualization for cloud-computing. 323-329
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  Jianxin Li, Yu Jia, Lu Liu, Tianyu Wo:
  CyberLiveApp: A secure sharing and migration approach for live virtual desktop applications in a cloud environment. 330-340
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  Huacai Chen, Hai Jin, Kan Hu, Jian Huang:
  Scheduling overcommitted VM: Behavior monitoring and dynamic switching-frequency scaling. 341-351
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  Carlos Pérez-Miguel, José Miguel-Alonso, Alexander Mendiburu:
  High throughput computing over peer-to-peer networks. 352-360
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  Kan Zhang, Nick Antonopoulos:
  A novel bartering exchange ring based incentive mechanism for peer-to-peer systems. 361-369
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  Rubén Mondéjar, Pedro García López, Carles Pairot, Lluis Pamies-Juarez:
  CloudSNAP: A transparent infrastructure for decentralized web deployment using distributed interception. 370-380
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  Kaigui Wu, Changze Wu:
  State-based search strategy in unstructured P2P. 381-386
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  Valentina Casola, Antonio Cuomo, Massimiliano Rak, Umberto Villano:
  The CloudGrid approach: Security analysis and performance evaluation. 387-401
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  Ye Huang, Nik Bessis, Peter Norrington, Pierre Kuonen, Béat Hirsbrunner:
  Exploring decentralized dynamic scheduling for grids and clouds using the community-aware scheduling algorithm. 402-415
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  Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu:
  A novel intrusion severity analysis approach for Clouds. 416-428
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  P. Varalakshmi, S. Thamarai Selvi:
  Thwarting DDoS attacks in grid using information divergence. 429-441
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  Jia Ke, Yongzhao Zhan, Xiaojun Chen, Manrong Wang:
  The retrieval of motion event by associations of temporal frequent pattern growth. 442-450

Volume 29, Number 2, February 2013

Regular papers

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  Tim Verbelen, Tim Stevens, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt:
  Graph partitioning algorithms for optimizing software deployment in mobile cloud computing. 451-459
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  Luca Berruti, Franco Davoli, Sandro Zappatore:
  Performance evaluation of measurement data acquisition mechanisms in a distributed computing environment integrating remote laboratory instrumentation. 460-471
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  Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, Rizos Sakellariou:
  Adaptive resource configuration for Cloud infrastructure management. 472-487
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  Katia Leal:
  Self-adjusting resource sharing policies in Federated Grids. 488-496
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  Alessio Merlo:
  Secure cooperative access control on grid. 497-508
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  Javad Akbari Torkestani:
  A highly reliable and parallelizable data distribution scheme for data grids. 509-519
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  Javad Salimi Sartakhti, Saeed Jalili, Ali Gholami Rudi:
  A new light-based solution to the Hamiltonian path problem. 520-527
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  Rui Li, Yinfeng Zhang, Zhengquan Xu, Huayi Wu:
  A Load-balancing method for network GISs in a heterogeneous cluster-based system using access density. 528-535
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  Syed Raheel Hassan, Maxime Syrame, Julien Bourgeois:
  Protecting grids from cross-domain attacks using security alert sharing mechanisms. 536-547

Special section: Recent Advances in e-Science

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  Daniel S. Katz, David Abramson:
  Recent advances in e-Science. 548
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  Muhammad S. Sarwar, Tom Doherty, John P. Watt, Richard O. Sinnott:
  Towards a virtual research environment for language and literature researchers. 549-559
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  Jason Wimmer, Michael W. Towsey, Birgit M. Planitz, Ian Williamson, Paul Roe:
  Analysing environmental acoustic data through collaboration and automation. 560-568
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  Simon Price, Peter A. Flach, Sebastian Spiegler, Christopher Bailey, Nikki Rogers:
  SubSift web services and workflows for profiling and comparing scientists and their published works. 569-581
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  Tolga Dalman, Tim Dörnemann, Ernst Juhnke, Michael Weitzel, Wolfgang Wiechert, Katharina Nöh, Bernd Freisleben:
  Cloud MapReduce for Monte Carlo bootstrap applied to Metabolic Flux Analysis. 582-590
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  Anna Sher, Ken Wang, Andrew J. Wathen, Philip John Maybank, Gary R. Mirams, David Abramson, Denis Noble, David Gavaghan:
  A local sensitivity analysis method for developing biological models with identifiable parameters: Application to cardiac ionic channel modelling. 591-598
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  Sean Bechhofer, Iain E. Buchan, David De Roure, Paolo Missier, John D. Ainsworth, Jiten Bhagat, Philip A. Couch, Don Cruickshank, Mark Delderfield, Ian Dunlop, Matthew Gamble, Danius T. Michaelides, Stuart Owen, David R. Newman, Shoaib Sufi, Carole A. Goble:
  Why linked data is not enough for scientists. 599-611
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  Erica Y. Yang, Brian Matthews, Michael D. Wilson:
  Enhancing the core scientific metadata model to incorporate derived data. 612-623
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  Christopher James Pettit, Steve Williams, Ian D. Bishop, Jean-Philippe Aurambout, A. B. M. Russel, Anthony Michael, Subhash Sharma, David Hunter, Pang Choung Chan, Colin Enticott, Ann Borda, David Abramson:
  Building an ecoinformatics platform to support climate change adaptation in Victoria. 624-640
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  Yuan-Fang Li, Gavin Kennedy, Faith Ngoran, Philip Wu, Jane Hunter:
  An ontology-centric architecture for extensible scientific data management systems. 641-653
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  Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges:
  Scholarly primitives: Building institutional infrastructure for humanities e-Science. 654-661
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  Kenjiro Taura, Takuya Matsuzaki, Makoto Miwa, Yoshikazu Kamoshida, Daisaku Yokoyama, Nan Dun, Takeshi Shibata, Choi Sung Jun, Jun'ichi Tsujii:
  Design and implementation of GXP make - A workflow system based on make. 662-672

Volume 29, Number 3, March 2013

Regular Papers

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  Jinguang Han, Willy Susilo, Yi Mu:
  Identity-based data storage in cloud computing. 673-681
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  Gideon Juve, Ann L. Chervenak, Ewa Deelman, Shishir Bharathi, Gaurang Mehta, Karan Vahi:
  Characterizing and profiling scientific workflows. 682-692
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  Francesco Palmieri:
  Scalable service discovery in ubiquitous and pervasive computing architectures: A percolation-driven approach. 693-703
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  Carlos de Alfonso, Miguel Caballer, Fernando Alvarruiz, Germán Moltó:
  An economic and energy-aware analysis of the viability of outsourcing cluster computing to a cloud. 704-712
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  Kornel Skalkowski, Renata Slota, Dariusz Król, Jacek Kitowski:
  QoS-based storage resources provisioning for grid applications. 713-727
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  Sorina Camarasu-Pop, Tristan Glatard, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Pierre Gueth, David Sarrut, Hugues Benoit-Cattin:
  Monte Carlo simulation on heterogeneous distributed systems: A computing framework with parallel merging and checkpointing strategies. 728-738
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  Lizhe Wang, Jie Tao, Rajiv Ranjan, Holger Marten, Achim Streit, Jingying Chen, Dan Chen:
  G-Hadoop: MapReduce across distributed data centers for data-intensive computing. 739-750
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  Rajni Aron, Inderveer Chana:
  Bacterial foraging based hyper-heuristic for resource scheduling in grid computing. 751-762
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  Woochul Kang, H. Howie Huang, Andrew S. Grimshaw:
  Achieving high job execution reliability using underutilized resources in a computational economy. 763-775
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  Jun Huang, Yanbo Xue, Le Yang:
  An efficient closed-form solution for joint synchronization and localization using TOA. 776-781

Special Section: Recent Developments in High Performance Computing and Security

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  Waleed W. Smari, Luca Spalazzi, Yacine Zemali:
  Recent developments in high performance computing and security: An editorial. 782-787
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  Romain Giot, Mohamad El-Abed, Christophe Rosenberger:
  Fast computation of the performance evaluation of biometric systems: Application to multibiometrics. 788-799
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  Mohamed Khalil Hani, Muhammad N. Marsono, Rabia Bakhteri:
  Biometric encryption based on a fuzzy vault scheme with a fast chaff generation algorithm. 800-810
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  Francesco Pagliarecci, Luca Spalazzi, Francesco Spegni:
  Model checking grid security. 811-827
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  Ferucio Laurentiu Tiplea, Loredana Vamanu, Cosmin Vârlan:
  Reasoning about minimal anonymity in security protocols. 828-842
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  Massimo Benerecetti, Adriano Peron:
  Timed protocol insecurity problem is NP-complete. 843-862
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  Ali Ghaffarinejad, Mohammad Kazem Akbari:
  An incentive compatible and distributed reputation mechanism based on context similarity for service oriented systems. 863-875
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  Mathieu Blanc, Jean-François Lalande:
  Improving Mandatory Access Control for HPC clusters. 876-885
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  Yi-Pin Liao, Chih-Ming Hsiao:
  A novel multi-server remote user authentication scheme using self-certified public keys for mobile clients. 886-900
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  Fangyong Hou, Hongjun He, Nong Xiao, Fang Liu:
  Bus and memory protection through chain-generated and tree-verified IV for multiprocessors systems. 901-912

Volume 29, Number 4, June 2013

Regular papers

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  Shengzhi Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Haishan Wu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Peng Liu:
  Towards transparent and distributed workload management for large scale web servers. 913-925
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  Farrukh Nadeem, Thomas Fahringer:
  Optimizing execution time predictions of scientific workflow applications in the Grid through evolutionary programming. 926-935
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  Madhulina Sarkar, Triparna Mondal, Sarbani Roy, Nandini Mukherjee:
  Resource requirement prediction using clone detection technique. 936-952
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  Rafah M. Almuttairi, Rajeev Wankar, Atul Negi, C. Raghavendra Rao, Arun Agarwal, Rajkumar Buyya:
  A two phased service oriented Broker for replica selection in data grids. 953-972
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  Ruben Van den Bossche, Kurt Vanmechelen, Jan Broeckhove:
  Online cost-efficient scheduling of deadline-constrained workloads on hybrid clouds. 973-985

Special section: Utility and Cloud Computing

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  Geoffrey C. Fox, Shrideep Pallickara:
  Recent work in utility and cloud computing. 986-987
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  Bahman Javadi, Ruppa K. Thulasiram, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Characterizing spot price dynamics in public cloud environments. 988-999
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  Ivan Breskovic, Jörn Altmann, Ivona Brandic:
  Creating standardized products for electronic markets. 1000-1011
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  Saurabh Kumar Garg, Steven Versteeg, Rajkumar Buyya:
  A framework for ranking of cloud computing services. 1012-1023
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  Kathleen Ericson, Shrideep Pallickara:
  On the performance of high dimensional data clustering and classification algorithms. 1024-1034
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  Thilina Gunarathne, Bingjing Zhang, Tak-Lon Wu, Judy Qiu:
  Scalable parallel computing on clouds using Twister4Azure iterative MapReduce. 1035-1048
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  Matthew Malensek, Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Shrideep Pallickara:
  Exploiting geospatial and chronological characteristics in data streams to enable efficient storage and retrievals. 1049-1061
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  Josef Spillner, Johannes Müller, Alexander Schill:
  Creating optimal cloud storage systems. 1062-1072
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  Luwei Cheng, Cho-Li Wang:
  Network performance isolation for latency-sensitive cloud applications. 1073-1084
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  Balazs Gerofi, Zoltan Vass, Yutaka Ishikawa:
  Utilizing memory content similarity for improving the performance of highly available virtual machines. 1085-1095

Volume 29, Number 5, July 2013

Regular Papers

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  Javier Celaya, Unai Arronategui:
  A task routing approach to large-scale scheduling. 1097-1111
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  Quanwang Wu, Qingsheng Zhu:
  Transactional and QoS-aware dynamic service composition based on ant colony optimization. 1112-1119
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  Ashley D. Lloyd, Terence M. Sloan, Mario Antonioletti, Gary A. McGilvary:
  Embedded systems for global e-Social Science: Moving computation rather than data. 1120-1129
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  Denghui Liu, Jinli Cao:
  Scheduling para-virtualized virtual machines based on events. 1130-1139
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  Anne Benoit, Alexandru Dobrila, Jean-Marc Nicod, Laurent Philippe:
  Scheduling linear chain streaming applications on heterogeneous systems with failures. 1140-1151
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  Susan V. Vrbsky, Michael Galloway, Robert Carr, Rahul Nori, David Grubic:
  Decreasing power consumption with energy efficient data aware strategies. 1152-1163
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  Sucha Smanchat, Maria Indrawan, Sea Ling, Colin Enticott, David Abramson:
  Scheduling parameter sweep workflow in the Grid based on resource competition. 1164-1183
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  Juan Alfonso Lara, David Lizcano, María-Aurora Martínez, Juan Pazos:
  Developing front-end Web 2.0 technologies to access services, content and things in the future Internet. 1184-1195
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  Robert Dukaric, Matjaz B. Juric:
  Towards a unified taxonomy and architecture of cloud frameworks. 1196-1210

Special section: Hybrid Cloud Computing; Guest Editors: Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya, and Surya Nepal

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  Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya, Surya Nepal:
  Model-driven provisioning of application services in hybrid computing environments. 1211-1215
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  Rahul Ghosh, Francesco Longo, Vijay K. Naik, Kishor S. Trivedi:
  Modeling and performance analysis of large scale IaaS Clouds. 1216-1234
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  Yongquan Fu, Yijie Wang, Ernst W. Biersack:
  A general scalable and accurate decentralized level monitoring method for large-scale dynamic service provision in hybrid clouds. 1235-1253
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  Wes Lloyd, Shrideep Pallickara, Olaf David, Jim Lyon, Mazdak Arabi, Ken Rojas:
  Performance implications of multi-tier application deployments on Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds: Towards performance modeling. 1254-1264
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  Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Vishal Anand, Lemin Li:
  A cost efficient framework and algorithm for embedding dynamic virtual network requests. 1265-1277
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  Abdul Nasir Khan, Miss Laiha Mat Kiah, Samee Ullah Khan, Sajjad Ahmad Madani:
  Towards secure mobile cloud computing: A survey. 1278-1299
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  Chang Liu, Xuyun Zhang, Chi Yang, Jinjun Chen:
  CCBKE - Session key negotiation for fast and secure scheduling of scientific applications in cloud computing. 1300-1308
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  Dan Chen, Lizhe Wang, Xiaoming Wu, Jingying Chen, Samee Ullah Khan, Joanna Kolodziej, Mingwei Tian, Fang Huang, Wangyang Liu:
  Hybrid modelling and simulation of huge crowd over a hierarchical Grid architecture. 1309-1317

Volume 29, Number 6, August 2013

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  Alain Tchana, Giang Son Tran, Laurent Broto, Noel De Palma, Daniel Hagimont:
  Two levels autonomic resource management in virtualized IaaS. 1319-1332
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  Adam K. L. Wong, Andrzej M. Goscinski:
  A unified framework for the deployment, exposure and access of HPC applications as services in clouds. 1333-1344
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  Deshi Ye, Jianhai Chen:
  Non-cooperative games on multidimensional resource allocation. 1345-1352
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  Lluis Pamies-Juarez, Anwitaman Datta, Frédérique E. Oggier:
  In-network redundancy generation for opportunistic speedup of data backup. 1353-1362
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  Hamdi Yahyaoui, Zakaria Maamar, Erbin Lim, Philippe Thiran:
  Towards a community-based, social network-driven framework for Web services management. 1363-1377
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  Darren Quick, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo:
  Digital droplets: Microsoft SkyDrive forensic data remnants. 1378-1394
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  Jianwei Ma, Wanyu Liu, Tristan Glatard:
  A classification of file placement and replication methods on grids. 1395-1406

High Performance Computing in the Cloud

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  Wolfgang Gentzsch, Lucio Grandinetti, Gerhard R. Joubert:
  High performance computing in the cloud. 1407
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  Viktor Mauch, Marcel Kunze, Marius Hillenbrand:
  High performance cloud computing. 1408-1416
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  Dana Petcu, Georgiana Macariu, Silviu Panica, Ciprian Craciun:
  Portable Cloud applications - From theory to practice. 1417-1430
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  José Luis Lucas-Simarro, Rafael Moreno-Vozmediano, Rubén S. Montero, Ignacio Martín Llorente:
  Scheduling strategies for optimal service deployment across multiple clouds. 1431-1441
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  Csaba Attila Marosi, József Kovács, Péter Kacsuk:
  Towards a volunteer cloud system. 1442-1451
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  Rizwan Mian, Patrick Martin, José Luis Vázquez-Poletti:
  Provisioning data analytic workloads in a cloud. 1452-1458

Resource Discovery Mechanisms for P2P Systems

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  Laura Ricci, Ranieri Baraglia:
  Editorial. 1459-1460
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  Francesco Palmieri, Luigi Buonanno, Salvatore Venticinque, Rocco Aversa, Beniamino Di Martino:
  A distributed scheduling framework based on selfish autonomous agents for federated cloud environments. 1461-1472
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  Georgios Exarchakos, Nick Antonopoulos:
  Cooperative stalking of transient nomadic resources on overlay networks. 1473-1484
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  Yongquan Fu, Yijie Wang, Ernst W. Biersack:
  HybridNN: An accurate and scalable network location service based on the inframetric model. 1485-1504
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  P. Victer Paul, D. Rajaguru, N. Saravanan, Ramachandran Baskaran, P. Dhavachelvan:
  Efficient service cache management in mobile P2P networks. 1505-1521
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  Ricardo Olanda, Mariano Pérez, Juan Manuel Orduña:
  Hybrid P2P schemes for remote terrain interactive visualization systems. 1522-1532
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  Eddy Caron, Florent Chuffart, Cédric Tedeschi:
  When self-stabilization meets real platforms: An experimental study of a peer-to-peer service discovery system. 1533-1543
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  Emrah Çem, Öznur Özkasap:
  ProFID: Practical frequent items discovery in peer-to-peer networks. 1544-1560
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  Emanuele Carlini, Laura Ricci, Massimo Coppola:
  Flexible load distribution for hybrid distributed virtual environments. 1561-1572
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  Xiaoqun Yuan, Geyong Min, Yi Ding, Qiong Liu, Jinhong Liu, Hao Yin, Qing Fang:
  Adaptive resource management for P2P live streaming systems. 1573-1582
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  Toktam Ghafarian-M., Hossein Deldari, Bahman Javadi, Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee, Rajkumar Buyya:
  CycloidGrid: A proximity-aware P2P-based resource discovery architecture in volunteer computing systems. 1583-1595
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  Kyungyong Lee, Tae Woong Choi, P. Oscar Boykin, Renato J. O. Figueiredo:
  MatchTree: Flexible, scalable, and fault-tolerant wide-area resource discovery with distributed matchmaking and aggregation. 1596-1610
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  Yusuo Hu, Dafan Dong, Jiang Li, Feng Wu:
  Efficient and incentive-compatible resource allocation mechanism for P2P-assisted content delivery systems. 1611-1620
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  Yiming Zhang, Ling Liu:
  Distance-aware bloom filters: Enabling collaborative search for efficient resource discovery. 1621-1630
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  Stefano Ferretti:
  Gossiping for resource discovering: An analysis based on complex network theory. 1631-1644

Volume 29, Number 7, September 2013

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  Jayavardhana Gubbi, Rajkumar Buyya, Slaven Marusic, Marimuthu Palaniswami:
  Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions. 1645-1660
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  Lizhe Wang, Samee Ullah Khan, Dan Chen, Joanna Kolodziej, Rajiv Ranjan, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Albert Y. Zomaya:
  Energy-aware parallel task scheduling in a cluster. 1661-1670
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  Dagmar Krefting, Sebastian Canisius, Andreas Hoheisel, Helena Loose, Thomas Tolxdorff, Thomas Penzel:
  Grid based sleep research - Analysis of polysomnographies using a grid infrastructure. 1671-1679

Special Section: Cyber-enabled Distributed Computing for Ubiquitous Cloud and Network Services; Guest Editors: Bin Xie, Anup Kumar and Chi-Ming Chen

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  Bin Xie, Anup Kumar, Chi-Ming Chen:
  Preface. 1680-1681
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  J. Octavio Gutiérrez-García, Kwang Mong Sim:
  A family of heuristics for agent-based elastic Cloud bag-of-tasks concurrent scheduling. 1682-1699
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  Deger Cenk Erdil:
  Autonomic cloud resource sharing for intercloud federations. 1700-1708
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  Lanxiang Chen:
  Using algebraic signatures to check data possession in cloud storage. 1709-1715
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  Chun-I Fan, Shi-Yuan Huang:
  Controllable privacy preserving search based on symmetric predicate encryption in cloud storage. 1716-1724
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  Donghua Yang, Yuqiang Feng, Ye Yuan, Xixian Han, Jinbao Wang, Jianzhong Li:
  Ad-hoc aggregate query processing algorithms based on bit-store for query intensive applications in cloud computing. 1725-1735
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  Xiaohui Cui, Jesse St. Charles, Thomas E. Potok:
  GPU enhanced parallel computing for large scale data clustering. 1736-1741
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  Chin-Ling Chen:
  Combining quality of services path first routing and admission control to support VoIP traffic. 1742-1750
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  Zhigang Liu, Jinkuan Wang, Yanbo Xue:
  PCRLB-based sensor selection for maneuvering target tracking in range-based sensor networks. 1751-1757
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  Ting Chen, Xiaosong Zhang, Shi-ze Guo, Hong-yuan Li, Yue Wu:
  State of the art: Dynamic symbolic execution for automated test generation. 1758-1773

Special Section: Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications Big Data, Scalable Analytics, and Beyond; Guest Editors: Suraj Pandey and Surya Nepal

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  Suraj Pandey, Surya Nepal:
  Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications - Big Data, Scalable Analytics, and Beyond. 1774-1776
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  Rostand Costa, Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, Guido Lemos de Souza Filho, Dênio Mariz Sousa:
  Analyzing the impact of elasticity on the profit of cloud computing providers. 1777-1785
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  Maciej Malawski, Kamil Figiela, Jarek Nabrzyski:
  Cost minimization for computational applications on hybrid cloud infrastructures. 1786-1794
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  Esma Yildirim, JangYoung Kim, Tevfik Kosar:
  Modeling throughput sampling size for a cloud-hosted data scheduling and optimization service. 1795-1807
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  Hui Jin, Xian-He Sun:
  Performance comparison under failures of MPI and MapReduce: An analytical approach. 1808-1815
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  Daniel de Oliveira, Kary A. C. S. Ocaña, Eduardo S. Ogasawara, Jonas Dias, João Carlos de A. R. Gonçalves, Fernanda Araújo Baião, Marta Mattoso:
  Performance evaluation of parallel strategies in public clouds: A study with phylogenomic workflows. 1816-1825
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  Bahman Javadi, Martin Tomko, Richard O. Sinnott:
  Decentralized orchestration of data-centric workflows in Cloud environments. 1826-1837
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  Wanchun Dou, Qi Chen, Jinjun Chen:
  A confidence-based filtering method for DDoS attack defense in cloud environment. 1838-1850
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  Radu Prodan, Michael Sperk:
  Scientific computing with Google App Engine. 1851-1859
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  Jacek Cala, Hugo Hiden, Simon Woodman, Paul Watson:
  Cloud computing for fast prediction of chemical activity. 1860-1869

Volume 29, Number 8, October 2013

Regular papers

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  Sam Verboven, Kurt Vanmechelen, Jan Broeckhove:
  Black box scheduling for resource intensive virtual machine workloads with interference models. 1871-1884
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  Javid Taheri, Albert Y. Zomaya, Pascal Bouvry, Samee Ullah Khan:
  Hopfield neural network for simultaneous job scheduling and data replication in grids. 1885-1900
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  Lucio Grandinetti, Ornella Pisacane, Mehdi Sheikhalishahi:
  An approximate ϵϵ-constraint method for a multi-objective job scheduling in the cloud. 1901-1908
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  Mustafa Kaiiali, Rajeev Wankar, C. Raghavendra Rao, Arun Agarwal, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Grid Authorization Graph. 1909-1918
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  Haibin Cai, Chao Peng, Robert H. Deng, Linhua Jiang:
  A novel service-oriented intelligent seamless migration algorithm and application for pervasive computing environments. 1919-1930
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  Souley Madougou, Shayan Shahand, Mark Santcroos, Barbera D. C. van Schaik, Ammar Benabdelkader, Antoine H. C. van Kampen, Sílvia Delgado Olabarriaga:
  Characterizing workflow-based activity on a production e-infrastructure using provenance data. 1931-1942
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  Miao Wang, Viliam Holub, John Murphy, Patrick O'Sullivan:
  High volumes of event stream indexing and efficient multi-keyword searching for cloud monitoring. 1943-1962
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  Pengyao Wang, Jianqin Wang, Ying Chen, Guangyuan Ni:
  Rapid processing of remote sensing images based on cloud computing. 1963-1968
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  In Hwan Doh, Young Jin Kim, Eunsam Kim, Jongmoo Choi, Donghee Lee, Sam H. Noh:
  Towards greener data centers with storage class memory. 1969-1980
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  Romain Reuillon, Mathieu Leclaire, Sebastien Rey-Coyrehourcq:
  OpenMOLE, a workflow engine specifically tailored for the distributed exploration of simulation models. 1981-1990
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  Petr Holub, Martin Srom, Martin Pulec, Jiri Matela, Martin Jirman:
  GPU-accelerated DXT and JPEG compression schemes for low-latency network transmissions of HD, 2K, and 4K video. 1991-2006

Special Section: Advanced Cloud Monitoring Systems

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  Luis Miguel Vaquero, Suksant Sae Lor, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, Dusit Niyato, Stuart Clayman, Dev Audsin, R. Nadarajan:
  On Measuring Disturbances in the Force: Advanced Cloud Monitoring Systems. 2007-2008
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  Andrew Burkimsher, Iain Bate, Leandro Soares Indrusiak:
  A survey of scheduling metrics and an improved ordering policy for list schedulers operating on workloads with dependencies and a wide variation in execution times. 2009-2025
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  Jesús Montes, Alberto Sánchez, Bunjamin Memishi, María S. Pérez, Gabriel Antoniu:
  GMonE: A complete approach to cloud monitoring. 2026-2040
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  Javier Povedano-Molina, Jose M. Lopez-Vega, Juan M. López-Soler, Antonio Corradi, Luca Foschini:
  DARGOS: A highly adaptable and scalable monitoring architecture for multi-tenant Clouds. 2041-2056
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  Hadi Salimi, Mohsen Sharifi:
  Batch scheduling of consolidated virtual machines based on their workload interference model. 2057-2066
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  Zhiyuan Shao, Ligang He, Zhiqiang Lu, Hai Jin:
  VSA: An offline scheduling analyzer for Xen virtual machine monitor. 2067-2076
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  Gregory Katsaros, Josep Subirats, Josep Oriol Fitó, Jordi Guitart, Pierre Gilet, Daniel Espling:
  A service framework for energy-aware monitoring and VM management in Clouds. 2077-2091
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  Deqing Zou, Wenrong Zhang, Weizhong Qiang, Guofu Xiang, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Hai Jin, Kan Hu:
  Design and implementation of a trusted monitoring framework for cloud platforms. 2092-2102
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  Michael Smit, Bradley Simmons, Marin Litoiu:
  Distributed, application-level monitoring for heterogeneous clouds using stream processing. 2103-2114

Special Section: The fourth IEEE International Conference on e-Science 2011 - e-Science Applications and Tools

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  Erwin Laure, Sverker Holmgren:
  Preface. 2115-2116
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  Aaron Gidding, Yuma Matsui, Thomas E. Levy, Thomas A. DeFanti, Falko Kuester:
  ArchaeoSTOR: A data curation system for research on the archeological frontier. 2117-2127
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  Kyle E. Benson, Samuel Schlachter, Trilce Estrada, Michela Taufer, Jesse Lawrence, Elizabeth Cochran:
  On the powerful use of simulations in the Quake-Catcher Network to efficiently position low-cost earthquake sensors. 2128-2142
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  Kris Bubendorfer, Kyle Chard, John Koshy, Ashfag M. Thaufeeg:
  eScience in the Social Cloud. 2143-2156
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  Robert Bentley, John Brooke, André Csillaghy, Donal Fellows, Anja Le Blanc, Mauro Messerotti, David Pérez-Suárez, Gabriele Pierantoni, Marco Soldati:
  HELIO: Discovery and analysis of data in heliophysics. 2157-2168
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  Hazeline U. Asuncion:
  Automated data provenance capture in spreadsheets, with case studies. 2169-2181
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  Zulkifly Mohd Zaki, Peter M. Dew, Lydia M. S. Lau, Andrew Rickard, Jenny C. Young, Tahir Farooq, Michael J. Pilling, Chris J. Martin:
  Architecture design of a user-orientated electronic laboratory notebook: A case study within an atmospheric chemistry community. 2182-2196
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  Xavier Aguilar, Michael Schliephake, Olav Vahtras, Judit Giménez, Erwin Laure:
  Scalability analysis of Dalton, a molecular structure program. 2197-2204
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  Kary A. C. S. Ocaña, Daniel de Oliveira, Jonas Dias, Eduardo S. Ogasawara, Marta Mattoso:
  Designing a parallel cloud based comparative genomics workflow to improve phylogenetic analyses. 2205-2219

Special Section: On Cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing

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  Pavan Balaji, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Guest editors' introduction: Special issue on Cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing. 2220-2221
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  Hai Jin, Xiao Ling, Shadi Ibrahim, Wenzhi Cao, Song Wu, Gabriel Antoniu:
  Flubber: Two-level disk scheduling in virtualized environment. 2222-2238
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  Daniela Remenska, Tim A. C. Willemse, Kees Verstoep, Jeff Templon, Henri E. Bal:
  Using model checking to analyze the system behavior of the LHC production grid. 2239-2251
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  Timo van Kessel, Ben van Werkhoven, Niels Drost, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal, Frank J. Seinstra:
  User transparent data and task parallel multimedia computing with Pyxis-DT. 2252-2261
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  Vignesh T. Ravi, Michela Becchi, Wei Jiang, Gagan Agrawal, Srimat T. Chakradhar:
  Scheduling concurrent applications on a cluster of CPU-GPU nodes. 2262-2271
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  Dawei Feng, Cécile Germain, Tristan Glatard:
  Efficient distributed monitoring with active Collaborative Prediction. 2272-2283
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  Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Tristan Glatard, Frédéric Desprez:
  Self-healing of workflow activity incidents on distributed computing infrastructures. 2284-2294