Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25

Volume 25, Number 1, January 2009

• Wu-Chun Chung, Ruay-Shiung Chang:
  A new mechanism for resource monitoring in Grid computing. 1-7
  
• Byoung-Hoon Lee, Sung-Hwa Lim, Jai-Hoon Kim, Geoffrey Fox:
  Lease-based consistency schemes in the web environment. 8-19
  
• Ruay-Shiung Chang, Jih-Sheng Chang, Po-Sheng Lin:
  An ant algorithm for balanced job scheduling in grids. 20-27
  
• Vladimir Korkhov, Jakub T. Moscicki, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya:
  Dynamic workload balancing of parallel applications with user-level scheduling on the Grid. 28-34
  
• Daniel C. Vanderster, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Rafael Parra-Hernandez, Randall J. Sobie:
  Resource allocation on computational grids using a utility model and the knapsack problem. 35-50
  
• Wang-Chien Lee, Jianliang Xu, Jianzhong Li, Fabrizio Silvestri:
  Special Section: Scalable information systems. 51-52
  
• Yuh-Jzer Joung, Feng-Yuan Chuang:
  OntoZilla: An ontology-based, semi-structured, and evolutionary peer-to-peer network for information systems and services. 53-63
  
• Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro, Fausto Rabitti, Pavel Zezula:
  Distance browsing in distributed multimedia databases. 64-76
  
• Rong Zhang, Weining Qian, Aoying Zhou, Minqi Zhou:
  An efficient peer-to-peer indexing tree structure for multidimensional data. 77-88
  
• Gleb Skobeltsyn, Toan Luu, Ivana Podnar Zarko, Martin Rajman, Karl Aberer:
  Query-driven indexing for scalable peer-to-peer text retrieval. 89-99
  
• Spyros Blanas, Vasilis Samoladas:
  Contention-based performance evaluation of multidimensional range search in peer-to-peer networks. 100-108
  

Volume 25, Number 2, February 2009

• Larry Smarr, Maxine D. Brown, Cees de Laat:
  Special section: OptIPlanet - The OptIPuter global collaboratory. 109-113
  
• Thomas A. DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Byungil Jeong, Alan Verlo, Lance Long, Maxine D. Brown, Daniel J. Sandin, Venkatram Vishwanath, Qian Liu, Mason J. Katz, Philip M. Papadopoulos, Joseph P. Keefe, Gregory R. Hidley, Gregory Dawe, Ian Kaufman, Bryan Glogowski, Kai-Uwe Doerr, Rajvikram Singh, Javier Girado:
  The OptIPortal, a scalable visualization, storage, and computing interface device for the OptiPuter. 114-123
  
• Larry Smarr, Paul Gilna, Philip M. Papadopoulos, Thomas A. DeFanti, Gregory R. Hidley, John Wooley, E. Virginia Armbrust, Forest Rohwer, Eric Frost:
  Building an OptIPlanet collaboratory to support microbial metagenomics. 124-131
  
• Paola Grosso, Damien Marchal, Jason Maassen, Eric Bernier, Li Xu, Cees de Laat:
  Dynamic photonic lightpaths in the StarPlane network. 132-136
  
• Joe Mambretti:
  OptIPuter: Enabling advanced applications with novel optical control planes and backplanes. 137-141
  
• Freek Dijkstra, Jeroen van der Ham, Paola Grosso, Cees de Laat:
  A path finding implementation for multi-layer networks. 142-146
  
• Andrew A. Chien, Nut Taesombut:
  Integrated resource management for lambda-grids: The Distributed Virtual Computer (DVC). 147-152
  
• Leon Gommans, Li Xu, Yuri Demchenko, Alfred Wan, Mihai Cristea, Robert J. Meijer, Cees de Laat:
  Multi-domain lightpath authorization, using tokens. 153-160
  
• Luc Renambot, Byungil Jeong, Hyejung Hur, Andrew E. Johnson, Jason Leigh:
  Enabling high resolution collaborative visualization in display rich virtual organizations. 161-168
  
• Thomas A. DeFanti, Gregory Dawe, Daniel J. Sandin, Jürgen P. Schulze, Peter Otto, Javier Girado, Falko Kuester, Larry Smarr, Ramesh Rao:
  The StarCAVE, a third-generation CAVE and virtual reality OptIPortal. 169-178
  
• Robert L. Grossman, Yunhong Gu, Michal Sabala, Wanzhi Zhang:
  Compute and storage clouds using wide area high performance networks. 179-183
  
• Venkatram Vishwanath, Robert Burns, Jason Leigh, Michael Seablom:
  Accelerating tropical cyclone analysis using LambdaRAM, a distributed data cache over wide-area ultra-fast networks. 184-191
  
• Daisuke Shirai, Tetsuo Kawano, Tatsuya Fujii, Kunitake Kaneko, Naohisa Ohta, Sadayasu Ono, Sachine Arai, Terukazu Ogoshi:
  Real time switching and streaming transmission of uncompressed 4K motion pictures. 192-197
  

Volume 25, Number 3, March 2009

• Bangyu Wu, Chi-Hung Chi, Zhe Chen, Ming Gu, Jiaguang Sun:
  Workflow-based resource allocation to optimize overall performance of composite services. 199-212
  
• Carlo Mastroianni, Pasquale Cozza, Domenico Talia, Ian Kelley, Ian Taylor:
  A scalable super-peer approach for public scientific computation. 213-223
  
• Steven Lynden, Arijit Mukherjee, Alastair C. Hume, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Norman W. Paton, Rizos Sakellariou, Paul Watson:
  The design and implementation of OGSA-DQP: A service-based distributed query processor. 224-236
  
• Marek Wieczorek, Andreas Hoheisel, Radu Prodan:
  Towards a general model of the multi-criteria workflow scheduling on the grid. 237-256
  
• Gustavo Sousa Pavani, Helio Waldman:
  Co-scheduling in Lambda Grid Systems by means of Ant Colony Optimization. 257-265
  
• Wolfgang Gentzsch, Alexander Reinefeld:
  Special Section D-Grid. 266-267
  
• M. Alef, Thomas Fieseler, S. Freitag, A. Garcia, C. Grimm, Wolfgang Gürich, H. Mehammed, Lars Schley, O. Schneider, Gian Luca Volpato:
  Integration of multiple middlewares on a single computing resource. 268-274
  
• Ralf Groeper, Christian Grimm, Siegfried Makedanz, Hans Pfeiffenberger, Wolfgang Ziegler, Peter Gietz, Michael Schiffers:
  A concept for attribute-based authorization on D-Grid resources. 275-280
  
• Stefan Plantikow, Kathrin Peter, Mikael Högqvist, Christian Grimme, Alexander Papaspyrou:
  Generalizing the data management of three community grids. 281-289
  
• Tobias Scholl, Bernhard Bauer, Benjamin Gufler, Richard Kuntschke, Angelika Reiser, Alfons Kemper:
  Scalable community-driven data sharing in e-science grids. 290-300
  
• Christian Grimme, Alexander Papaspyrou:
  Cooperative negotiation and scheduling of scientific workflows in the collaborative climate community data and processing grid. 301-307
  
• Daniel Lorenz, Branislav Borovac, Peter Buchholz, Henrik Eichenhardt, T. Harenberg, P. Mättig, M. Mechtel, Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn, Reinhard Neumann, K. Reeves, Christian Uebing, Wolfgang Walkowiak, Thomas William, Roland Wismüller:
  Job monitoring and steering in D-Grid's High Energy Physics Community Grid. 308-314
  
• Matthew Smith, Matthias Schmidt, Niels Fallenbeck, Tim Dörnemann, Christian Schridde, Bernd Freisleben:
  Secure on-demand grid computing. 315-325
  
• Dagmar Krefting, Julian Bart, Kamen Beronov, Olga Dzhimova, Jürgen Falkner, Michael Hartung, Andreas Hoheisel, Tobias A. Knoch, Thomas Lingner, Yassene Mohammed, Kathrin Peter, Erhard Rahm, Ulrich Sax, Dietmar Sommerfeld, Thomas Steinke, Thomas Tolxdorff, Michal Vossberg, Fred Viezens, Anette Weisbecker:
  MediGRID: Towards a user friendly secured grid infrastructure. 326-336
  
• Dietmar Sommerfeld, Thomas Lingner, Mario Stanke, Burkhard Morgenstern, Harald Richter:
  AUGUSTUS at MediGRID: Adaption of a bioinformatics application to grid computing for efficient genome analysis. 337-345
  
• Jan Ploski, Guido Scherp, Thomas I. Petroliagis, Otto Büchner, Wilhelm Hasselbring:
  Grid-based deployment and performance measurement of the Weather Research & Forecasting model. 346-350
  
• Tai-Hoon Kim, Wai-Chi Fang:
  Special section: Grid/distributed computing systems security. 351
  
• Soongohn Kim, Seoksoo Kim, Geuk Lee:
  Secure verifiable non-interactive oblivious transfer protocol using RSA and Bit commitment on distributed environment. 352-357
  
• Seoksoo Kim, Soongohn Kim, Geuk Lee:
  Structure design and test of enterprise security management system with advanced internal security. 358-363
  
• Jemal H. Abawajy:
  An efficient adaptive scheduling policy for high-performance computing. 364-370
  
• Yun Ji Na, Il Seok Ko, Shiying Xu:
  A multilayered digital content distribution using a group-key based on web. 371-377
  
• Jing Zhou, Guosun Zeng:
  A mechanism for grid service composition behavior specification and verification. 378-383
  

Volume 25, Number 4, April 2009

• Hong Linh Truong, Peter Brunner, Vlad Nae, Thomas Fahringer:
  DIPAS: A distributed performance analysis service for grid service-based workflows. 385-398
  
• George A. Gravvanis, John P. Morrison, Heinz Stockinger:
  Special Section: Defining the grid, experiences and future trends. 399-400
  
• Eduardo Huedo, Rubén S. Montero, Ignacio Martín Llorente:
  A recursive architecture for hierarchical grid resource management. 401-405
  
• Tevfik Kosar, Mehmet Balman:
  A new paradigm: Data-aware scheduling in grid computing. 406-413
  
• Oisín Curran, Andy Shearer:
  A workflow model for heterogeneous computing environments. 414-425
  
• Athanasia Asiki, Katerina Doka, Ioannis Konstantinou, Antonis Zissimos, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Nectarios Koziris, Panayotis Tsanakas:
  A grid middleware for data management exploiting peer-to-peer techniques. 426-435
  
• Richard Olejnik, Teodor Florin Fortis, Bernard Toursel:
  Webservices oriented data mining in knowledge architecture. 436-443
  
• Kenneth Chiu, Geoffrey Fox:
  Special Section: Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. 444-445
  
• Mark Hedges, Tobias Blanke, Adil Hasan:
  Rule-based curation and preservation of data: A data grid approach using iRODS. 446-452
  
• Andrew Gibson, Matthew Gamble, Katy Wolstencroft, Tom Oinn, Carole A. Goble, Khalid Belhajjame, Paolo Missier:
  The data playground: An intuitive workflow specification environment. 453-459
  
• Hui Li, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Model-based simulation and performance evaluation of grid scheduling strategies. 460-465
  
• Sriram Krishnan, Karan Bhatia:
  SOAs for scientific applications: Experiences and challenges. 466-473
  
• Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges, Stuart Dunn:
  Arts and humanities e-science - Current practices and future challenges. 474-480
  
• Dennis Wegener, Thierry Sengstag, Stelios Sfakianakis, Stefan Rüping, Anthony Assi:
  GridR: An R-based tool for scientific data analysis in grid environments. 481-488
  

Volume 25, Number 5, May 2009

• Samia Loucif, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua:
  Performance analysis of deterministically-routed bi-directional torus with non-uniform traffic distribution. 489-498
  
• Rosario M. Piro, Andrea Guarise, Giuseppe Patania, Albert Werbrouck:
  Using historical accounting information to predict the resource usage of grid jobs. 499-510
  
• Carmela Comito, Anastasios Gounaris, Rizos Sakellariou, Domenico Talia:
  A service-oriented system for distributed data querying and integration on Grids. 511-524
  

• Zhiming Zhao, Adam Belloum, Marian Bubak:
  Special section on workflow systems and applications in e-Science. 525-527
  
• Ewa Deelman, Dennis Gannon, Matthew S. Shields, Ian Taylor:
  Workflows and e-Science: An overview of workflow system features and capabilities. 528-540
  
• Timothy M. McPhillips, Shawn Bowers, Daniel Zinn, Bertram Ludäscher:
  Scientific workflow design for mere mortals. 541-551
  
• Antoon Goderis, Christopher Brooks, Ilkay Altintas, Edward A. Lee, Carole A. Goble:
  Heterogeneous composition of models of computation. 552-560
  
• David De Roure, Carole A. Goble, Robert Stevens:
  The design and realisation of the my_Experiment Virtual Research Environment for social sharing of workflows. 561-567
  
• Liqiang Wang, Shiyong Lu, Xubo Fei, Artem Chebotko, H. Victoria Bryant, Jeffrey L. Ram:
  Atomicity and provenance support for pipelined scientific workflows. 568-576
  
• Qihong Shao, Peng Sun, Yi Chen:
  Efficiently discovering critical workflows in scientific explorations. 577-585
  
• Matt J. Fairman, Andrew R. Price, Gang Xue, Marc Molinari, Denis A. Nicole, Timothy M. Lenton, Robert Marsh, Kenji Takeda, Simon J. Cox:
  Earth system modelling with Windows Workflow Foundation. 586-597
  

Volume 25, Number 6, June 2009

• Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg, Ivona Brandic:
  Cloud computing and emerging IT platforms: Vision, hype, and reality for delivering computing as the 5th utility. 599-616
  
• Javier Díaz, Sebastián Reyes, Alfonso Niño, Camelia Muñoz-Caro:
  Derivation of self-scheduling algorithms for heterogeneous distributed computer systems: Application to internet-based grids of computers. 617-626
  
• Ignacio Blanquer Espert, Vicente Hernández García, Fco. Javier Meseguer Anastásio, J. Damià Segrelles Quilis:
  Content-based organisation of virtual repositories of DICOM objects. 627-637
  
• Markus Held, Wolfgang Blochinger:
  Structured collaborative workflow design. 638-653
  
• V. Roshanaei, B. Naderi, F. Jolai, M. Khalili:
  A variable neighborhood search for job shop scheduling with set-up times to minimize makespan. 654-661
  
• Po-Cheng Chen, Jyh-Biau Chang, Tyng-Yeu Liang, Ce-Kuen Shieh:
  A progressive multi-layer resource reconfiguration framework for time-shared grid systems. 662-673
  
• Panagiotis C. Kokkinos, Emmanouel A. Varvarigos:
  A framework for providing hard delay guarantees and user fairness in Grid computing. 674-686
  
• Wen-Chung Shih, Chao-Tung Yang, Shian-Shyong Tseng:
  Ontology-based content organization and retrieval for SCORM-compliant teaching materials in data grids. 687-694
  

Volume 25, Number 7, July 2009

• Chao-Tung Yang, I-Hsien Yang, Shih-Yu Wang, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Kuan-Ching Li:
  A Recursively-Adjusting Co-allocation scheme with a Cyber-Transformer in Data Grids. 695-703
  
• Mohammad Kalantari, Mohammad Kazem Akbari:
  A parallel solution for scheduling of real time applications on grid environments. 704-716
  
• Rafael Moreno-Vozmediano:
  A hybrid mechanism for resource/service discovery in ad-hoc grids. 717-727
  
• David Vengerov:
  A reinforcement learning framework for utility-based scheduling in resource-constrained systems. 728-736
  
• Bahman Javadi, Mohammad K. Akbari, Jemal H. Abawajy:
  Multi-cluster computing interconnection network performance modeling and analysis. 737-746
  
• María S. Pérez, Alberto Sánchez, Jemal H. Abawajy, Víctor Robles, José Manuel Peña:
  An agent architecture for managing data resources in a grid environment. 747-755
  

• Theodora A. Varvarigou, Antonios Litke, Dimosthenis Kyriazis:
  Special section: Real-time attributes in grids. 756-757
  
• Vicente Olmedo, Víctor A. Villagrá, Kleopatra Konstanteli, Juan E. Burgos, Julio Berrocal:
  Network mobility support for Web Service-based Grids through the Session Initiation Protocol. 758-767
  
• Youngjoo Han, Chan-Hyun Youn:
  A new grid resource management mechanism with resource-aware policy administrator for SLA-constrained applications. 768-778
  
• Andreas Menychtas, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Konstantinos Tserpes:
  Real-time reconfiguration for guaranteeing QoS provisioning levels in Grid environments. 779-784
  
• Radu Prodan, Vlad Nae:
  Prediction-based real-time resource provisioning for massively multiplayer online games. 785-793
  
• Francesco Palmieri:
  Network-aware scheduling for real-time execution support in data-intensive optical Grids. 794-803
  
• Athanasios Moralis, Vassiliki Pouli, Symeon Papavassiliou, Vasilis Maglaris:
  A Kerberos security architecture for web services based instrumentation grids. 804-818
  

Volume 25, Number 8, September 2009

• Yajun Li, Yuhang Yang, Maode Ma, Liang Zhou:
  A hybrid load balancing strategy of sequential tasks for grid computing environments. 819-828
  
• Atakan Dogan:
  A study on performance of dynamic file replication algorithms for real-time file access in Data Grids. 829-839
  
• Katia Leal, Eduardo Huedo, Ignacio Martín Llorente:
  A decentralized model for scheduling independent tasks in Federated Grids. 840-852
  
• Fabio Farina, Silvia Calegari:
  Distributed semantic document retrieval using O-FCN. 853-861
  
• Antonella Di Stefano, Giovanni Morana, Daniele Zito:
  A P2P strategy for QoS discovery and SLA negotiation in Grid environment. 862-875
  
• Germán Moltó, Vicente Hernández, José M. Alonso:
  Automatic replication of WSRF-based Grid services via operation providers. 876-883
  
• Peijie Huang, Hong Peng, Piyuan Lin, Xuezhen Li:
  Static strategy and dynamic adjustment: An effective method for Grid task scheduling. 884-892
  

• Piero Spinnato, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, Chris Edwards, Michael Welzl:
  Special section on networks for grid applications. 893-894
  
• César Cárdenas, Maurice Gagnaire:
  Evaluation of Flow-Aware Networking (FAN) architectures under GridFTP traffic. 895-903
  
• Sebastien Soudan, Bin Bin Chen, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet:
  Flow scheduling and endpoint rate control in GridNetworks. 904-911
  
• Tim Stevens, Marc De Leenheer, Chris Develder, Bart Dhoedt, Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Panagiotis C. Kokkinos, Emmanouel A. Varvarigos:
  Multi-cost job routing and scheduling in Grid networks. 912-925
  
• Hamed Janzadeh, Kaveh Fayazbakhsh, Mehdi Dehghan, Mehran S. Fallah:
  A secure credit-based cooperation stimulating mechanism for MANETs using hash chains. 926-934