Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 20

Volume 20, Number 1, January 2008

• Franklin E. Powers Jr., Gita Alaghband:
  The Hydra Parallel Programming System. 1-27
  
• Ying-Nan Zhang, Qing-Ni Hu, Hong-fei Teng:
  Active target particle swarm optimization. 29-40
  
• Yu Huang, Hanpin Wang, Wen Zhao, Chunxiang Xu:
  A practical method to analyze workflow logic models. 41-60
  
• Tao Peng, Changli Zhang, Wanli Zuo:
  Tunneling enhanced by web page content block partition for focused crawling. 61-74
  
• Bahman Javadi, Jemal H. Abawajy, Mohammad K. Akbari:
  A comprehensive analytical model of interconnection networks in large-scale cluster systems. 75-97
  
• Cosimo Anglano, Massimo Canonico:
  The File Mover: high-performance data transfer for the grid. 99-123
  

Volume 20, Number 2, February 2008

• Ben Y. Zhao:
  Special Issue: Recent Advances in Peer-to-Peer Systems and Security. 125-126
  

• Johan A. Pouwelse, Pawel Garbacki, Jun Wang, Arno Bakker, Jie Yang, Alexandru Iosup, Dick H. J. Epema, Marcel J. T. Reinders, Maarten van Steen, Henk J. Sips:
  TRIBLER: a social-based peer-to-peer system. 127-138
  
• M. Zaharia, S. Keshav:
  Gossip-based search selection in hybrid peer-to-peer networks. 139-153
  
• Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almeroth:
  Exploring the feasibility of proactive reputations. 155-166
  
• Qiao Lian, Yu Peng, Mao Yang, Zheng Zhang, Yafei Dai, Xiaoming Li:
  Robust incentives via multi-level Tit-for-Tat. 167-178
  
• Nikitas Liogkas, Robert Nelson, Eddie Kohler, Lixia Zhang:
  Exploring the robustness of BitTorrent peer-to-peer content distribution systems. 179-189
  

Volume 20, Number 3, March 2008

• Paul Watson, Simon Cox:
  Special Issue. 191-193
  

• Stephen A. Jarvis, B. P. Foley, P. J. Isitt, Daniel P. Spooner, D. Rueckert, Graham R. Nudd:
  Performance prediction for a code with data-dependent runtimes. 195-206
  
• Weijian Fang, Simon Miles, Luc Moreau:
  Performance analysis of a semantics-enabled service registry. 207-223
  
• Robert Geldhill, Sarah Kent, Andrew J. Milsted, Richard Chapman, Jonathan W. Essex, Jeremy G. Frey:
  e-Malaria: the schools Malaria project. 225-238
  
• Jeremy Cohen, John Darlington, William Lee:
  Payment and negotiation for the next generation Grid and Web. 239-251
  
• Alun D. Preece, Paolo Missier, Suzanne M. Embury, Binling Jin, R. Mark Greenwood:
  An ontology-based approach to handling information quality in e-Science. 253-264
  
• J. D. Wood, H. Wright:
  Steering via the image in local, distributed and collaborative settings. 265-276
  
• Emil Lupu, Naranker Dulay, Morris Sloman, Joseph S. Sventek, Steven Heeps, Stephen Strowes, Kevin P. Twidle, Sye Loong Keoh, Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho:
  AMUSE: autonomic management of ubiquitous e-Health systems. 277-295
  
• Jie Xu, Paul Townend, Nik Looker, Paul T. Groth:
  FT-Grid: a system for achieving fault tolerance in grids. 297-309
  

Volume 20, Number 4, March 2008

• Jinjun Chen, Omer F. Rana:
  Special Issue: First International Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments (WSGE2006). 311-313
  

• Yanchong Zheng, Yushun Fan, Wei Tan:
  Towards workflow simulation in service-oriented architecture: an event-based approach. 315-330
  
• Ivona Brandic, Sabri Pllana, Siegfried Benkner:
  Specification, planning, and execution of QoS-aware Grid workflows within the Amadeus environment. 331-345
  
• Jinjun Chen, Yun Yang:
  A taxonomy of grid workflow verification and validation. 347-360
  
• Yonghwan Lee, Dugki Min:
  A peak load control-based orchestration system for stable execution of hybrid services. 361-376
  
• Jianxun Liu, Chunjie Zhou, Jinjun Chen:
  WdCM: a workday calendar model for workflows in service grid environments. 377-392
  
• Asbjørn Rygg, Paul Roe, On Wong, Jiro Sumitomo:
  GPFlow: an intuitive environment for web-based scientific workflow. 393-408
  

Volume 20, Number 5, 10 April 2008

• Luc Moreau, Bertram Ludäscher, Ilkay Altintas, Roger S. Barga, Shawn Bowers, Steven P. Callahan, George Chin Jr., Ben Clifford, Shirley Cohen, Sarah Cohen Boulakia, Susan B. Davidson, Ewa Deelman, Luciano A. Digiampietri, Ian T. Foster, Juliana Freire, James Frew, Joe Futrelle, Tara Gibson, Yolanda Gil, Carole A. Goble, Jennifer Golbeck, Paul T. Groth, David A. Holland, Sheng Jiang, Jihie Kim, David Koop, Ales Krenek, Timothy M. McPhillips, Gaurang Mehta, Simon Miles, Dominic Metzger, Steve Munroe, Jim Myers, Beth Plale, Norbert Podhorszki, Varun Ratnakar, Emanuele Santos, Carlos Eduardo Scheidegger, Karen Schuchardt, Margo I. Seltzer, Yogesh L. Simmhan, Cláudio T. Silva, Peter Slaughter, Eric G. Stephan, Robert Stevens, Daniele Turi, Huy T. Vo, Michael Wilde, Jun Zhao, Yong Zhao:
  Special Issue: The First Provenance Challenge. 409-418
  

• Roger S. Barga, Luciano A. Digiampietri:
  Automatic capture and efficient storage of e-Science experiment provenance. 419-429
  
• Jennifer Golbeck, James A. Hendler:
  A Semantic Web approach to the provenance challenge. 431-439
  
• Yogesh L. Simmhan, Beth Plale, Dennis Gannon:
  Query capabilities of the Karma provenance framework. 441-451
  
• Ales Krenek, Jirí Sitera, Ludek Matyska, Frantisek Dvorák, Milos Mulac, Miroslav Ruda, Zdenek Salvet:
  gLite Job Provenance - a job-centric view. 453-462
  
• Jun Zhao, Carole A. Goble, Robert Stevens, Daniele Turi:
  Mining Taverna's semantic web of provenance. 463-472
  
• Carlos Eduardo Scheidegger, David Koop, Emanuele Santos, Huy T. Vo, Steven P. Callahan, Juliana Freire, Cláudio T. Silva:
  Tackling the Provenance Challenge one layer at a time. 473-483
  
• James Frew, Dominic Metzger, Peter Slaughter:
  Automatic capture and reconstruction of computational provenance. 485-496
  
• Sarah Cohen Boulakia, Olivier Biton, Shirley Cohen, Susan B. Davidson:
  Addressing the provenance challenge using ZOOM. 497-506
  
• Bertram Ludäscher, Norbert Podhorszki, Ilkay Altintas, Shawn Bowers, Timothy M. McPhillips:
  From computation models to models of provenance: the RWS approach. 507-518
  
• Shawn Bowers, Timothy M. McPhillips, Bertram Ludäscher:
  Provenance in collection-oriented scientific workflows. 519-529
  
• David A. Holland, Margo I. Seltzer, Uri Braun, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy:
  PASSing the provenance challenge. 531-540
  
• Karen Schuchardt, Tara Gibson, Eric G. Stephan, George Chin Jr.:
  Applying content management to automated provenance capture. 541-554
  
• Joe Futrelle, James D. Myers:
  Tracking provenance semantics in heterogeneous execution systems. 555-564
  
• Ben Clifford, Ian T. Foster, Jens-S. Vöckler, Michael Wilde, Yong Zhao:
  Tracking provenance in a virtual data grid. 565-575
  
• Simon Miles, Paul T. Groth, Steve Munroe, Sheng Jiang, Thibaut Assandri, Luc Moreau:
  Extracting causal graphs from an open provenance data model. 577-586
  
• Jihie Kim, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Gaurang Mehta, Varun Ratnakar:
  Provenance trails in the Wings/Pegasus system. 587-597
  

Volume 20, Number 6, 25 April 2008

• Luigi V. Mancini:
  Special Issue: Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems. 599
  

• Cosimo Anglano:
  Segregation and scheduling for P2P applications with the interceptor middleware system. 601-624
  
• Andreas Binzenhöfer, Gerald Kunzmann, Robert Henjes:
  Design and analysis of a scalable algorithm to monitor chord-based p2p systems at runtime. 625-641
  
• Giovanni Chiola, Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Alberto Negro, Vittorio Scarano:
  Optimizing the finger tables in Chord-like DHTs. 643-657
  
• Matteo Dell'Amico:
  Neighbourhood maps: decentralized ranking in small-world P2P networks. 659-674
  
• Pengfei Di, Johannes Eickhold, Thomas Fuhrmann:
  Linyphi: creating IPv6 mesh networks with SSR. 675-691
  
• Jean-Baptiste Ernst-Desmulier, Julien Bourgeois, François Spies:
  P2PPerf: a framework for simulating and optimizing peer-to-peer-distributed computing applications. 693-712
  
• Rossano Gaeta, Matteo Sereno:
  On the evaluation of flooding-based search strategies in peer-to-peer networks. 713-734
  
• Lucas Nussbaum, Olivier Richard:
  Lightweight emulation to study peer-to-peer systems. 735-749
  

Volume 20, Number 7, May 2008

• Geoffrey Fox, Hai Zhuge:
  Special Issue: The 2nd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid. 751-752
  

• Liping Wang, Qing Li, Guozhu Dong, Yu Li:
  Semantic knowledge facilities for a web-based recipe database system supporting personalization. 753-782
  
• Tianyong Hao, Dawei Hu, Liu Wenyin, Qingtian Zeng:
  Semantic patterns for user-interactive question answering. 783-799
  
• Mehmet S. Aktas, Geoffrey Fox, Marlon E. Pierce, Sangyoon Oh:
  XML Metadata Services. 801-823
  
• Jin Yang, Jiannong Cao, Weigang Wu:
  Efficient global checkpointing algorithms for mobile agents. 825-838
  
• Xiangfeng Luo, Ning Fang, Bo Hu, Kai Yan, Huizhe Xiao:
  Semantic representation of scientific documents for the e-science Knowledge Grid. 839-862
  
• Jin Liu, Xiang Li, Liang Feng:
  Resource space view tour mechanism. 863-883
  
• Hai Zhuge, Kehua Yuan, Jin Liu, Junsheng Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang:
  Modeling language and tools for the semantic link network. 885-902
  

Volume 20, Number 8, 10 June 2008

• Lorie M. Liebrock, S. P. Goudy:
  Methodology for modelling SPMD hybrid parallel computation. 903-940
  
• Jan Henry Nyström, Philip W. Trinder, David J. King:
  High-level distribution for the rapid production of robust telecoms software: comparing C++ and ERLANG. 941-968
  
• Billy Yan-Kit Man, Hiu Ning (Angela) Chan, Andrew J. Gallagher, Appu S. Goundan, Aaron W. Keen, Ronald A. Olsson:
  A definition of and linguistic support for partial quiescence. 969-995
  
• Marcos Dias de Assunção, Rajkumar Buyya, Srikumar Venugopal:
  InterGrid: a case for internetworking islands of Grids. 997-1024
  

Volume 20, Number 9, 25 June 2008

• Bruno Schulze, David Abramson, Radha Nandkumar, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Special Issue: Middleware for Grid Computing. 1025-1027
  

• Luiz F. Bittencourt, Edmundo R. M. Madeira:
  A performance-oriented adaptive scheduler for dependent tasks on grids. 1029-1049
  
• A. Amar, Raphael Bolze, Yves Caniou, Eddy Caron, Andréea Chis, Frédéric Desprez, Benjamin Depardon, Jean-Sébastien Gay, Gaël Le Mahec, D. Loureiro:
  Tunable scheduling in a GridRPC framework. 1051-1069
  
• David W. Chadwick, Linying Su, Romain Laborde:
  Coordinating access control in grid services. 1071-1094
  
• Xingchen Chu, Andrew Lonie, Peter Harris, S. Randall Thomas, Rajkumar Buyya:
  A service-oriented Grid environment for integration of distributed kidney models and resources. 1095-1111
  
• Jiaying Zhang, Peter Honeyman:
  A replicated file system for Grid computing. 1113-1130
  

Volume 20, Number 10, July 2008

• H. Howie Huang, John F. Karpovich, Andrew S. Grimshaw:
  Analyzing the feasibility of building a new mass storage system on distributed resources. 1131-1150
  
• George A. Gravvanis, Victor N. Epitropou:
  Java multithreading-based parallel approximate arrow-type inverses. 1151-1172
  
• O. Hartmann, Matthias Kühnemann, Thomas Rauber, Gudula Rünger:
  An adaptive extension library for improving collective communication operations. 1173-1194
  
• Willem van Heiningen, Steve MacDonald, Tim Brecht:
  Babylon: middleware for distributed, parallel, and mobile Java applications. 1195-1224
  
• Rob Minson, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos:
  Distributing RePast agent-based simulations with HLA. 1225-1256
  

Volume 20, Number 11, 10 August 2008

• Jie Xu:
  Special Issue: Selected Papers from the U.K. e-Science All Hands Meeting in 2006. 1257-1258
  

• Caitriana Nicholson, David G. Cameron, A. T. Doyle, A. Paul Millar, Kurt Stockinger:
  Dynamic data replication in LCG 2008. 1259-1271
  
• Panos Periorellis, N. Cook, H. Hiden, A. Conlin, M. D. Hamilton, Jiyi Wu, Jeremy Bryans, Xiangguo Gong, F. Zhu, R. Smith, Paul Watson, A. R. Wright:
  GOLD infrastructure for virtual organizations. 1273-1288
  
• H. Wang, Ken W. Brodlie, James W. Handley, Jason Wood:
  Service-oriented approach to collaborative visualization. 1289-1301
  
• Danny Hughes, Phil Greenwood, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Paul Grace, Florian Pappenberger, Paul Smith, Keith J. Beven:
  An experiment with reflective middleware to support grid-based flood monitoring. 1303-1316
  
• Sanjay Kharche, Gunnar Seemann, Lee Margetts, Joanna Leng, Arun V. Holden, Henggui Zhang:
  Simulation of clinical electrophysiology in 3D human atria: a high-performance computing and high-performance visualization application. 1317-1328
  
• Richard P. Bruin, Toby O. H. White, Andrew M. Walker, Kat F. Austen, Martin T. Dove, Rik P. Tyer, Philip A. Couch, Ilian T. Todorov, M. O. Blanchard:
  Job submission to grid computing environments. 1329-1340
  
• David W. Chadwick, Gansen Zhao, Sassa Otenko, Romain Laborde, Linying Su, Tuan-Anh Nguyen:
  PERMIS: a modular authorization infrastructure. 1341-1357
  

Volume 20, Number 12, 25 August 2008

• Yunni Xia, Hanpin Wang, Wangsen Feng, Yu Huang:
  QoS modeling and analysis of component-based software systems: a stochastic approach. 1359-1385
  
• Denis Caromel, Luis Mateu, Guillaume Pothier, Éric Tanter:
  Parallel object monitors. 1387-1417
  
• Donna M. Carter, Ramazan Savas Aygün, Glenn W. Cox, Mary Ellen Weisskopf, Letha H. Etzkorn:
  The effect of uncontrolled concurrency on model checking. 1419-1438
  
• Masha Sosonkina, Fang Liu, Randall Bramley:
  Usability levels for sparse linear algebra components. 1439-1454
  
• Nanyan Jiang, Andres Quiroz, Cristina Schmidt, Manish Parashar:
  Meteor: a middleware infrastructure for content-based decoupled interactions in pervasive grid environments. 1455-1484
  

Volume 20, Number 13, 10 September 2008

• Anolan Milanés, Noemi de La Rocque Rodriguez, Bruno Schulze:
  State of the art in heterogeneous strong migration of computations. 1485-1508
  
• Marcelo Lobosco, Orlando Loques, Claudio Luis de Amorim:
  On the effectiveness of runtime techniques to reduce memory sharing overheads in distributed Java implementations. 1509-1538
  
• Antonio J. Plaza:
  Parallel processing of remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery: full-pixel versus mixed-pixel classification. 1539-1572
  
• Alfredo Buttari, Julien Langou, Jakub Kurzak, Jack Dongarra:
  Parallel tiled QR factorization for multicore architectures. 1573-1590
  
• Anthony Sulistio, Uros Cibej, Srikumar Venugopal, Borut Robic, Rajkumar Buyya:
  A toolkit for modelling and simulating data Grids: an extension to GridSim. 1591-1609
  

Volume 20, Number 14, 25 September 2008

• Marlon E. Pierce:
  Special Issue Editorial Introduction: Grids and Geospatial Information Systems. 1611-1615
  

• Liping Di, Aijun Chen, Wenli Yang, Yang Liu, Yaxing Wei, Piyush Mehrotra, Chaumin Hu, Dean Williams:
  The development of a geospatial data Grid by integrating OGC Web services with Globus-based Grid technology. 1617-1635
  
• Gabrielle Allen, Philip Bogden, Gerry Creager, Chirag Dekate, Carola Jesch, Hartmut Kaiser, Jon MacLaren, Will Perrie, Gregory W. Stone, Xiongping Zhang:
  Towards an integrated GIS-based coastal forecast workflow. 1637-1651
  
• Galip Aydin, Ahmet Sayar, Harshawardhan Gadgil, Mehmet S. Aktas, Geoffrey Fox, Sunghoon Ko, Hasan Bulut, Marlon E. Pierce:
  Building and applying geographical information system Grids. 1653-1695
  
• Shaowen Wang, Mary Kathryn Cowles, Marc P. Armstrong:
  Grid computing of spatial statistics: using the TeraGrid for G_i^*(d) analysis. 1697-1720
  

Volume 20, Number 15, October 2008

• Jinjun Chen, Yonghwan Lee:
  Special issue: Second International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe2007). 1721-1723
  

• Massimo Cafaro, Italo Epicoco, Maria Mirto, Daniele Lezzi, Giovanni Aloisio:
  The Grid Resource Broker workflow engine. 1725-1739
  
• Wan-Chun Dou, Jinjun Chen, Shaokun Fan, S. C. Cheung:
  A context- and role-driven scientific workflow development pattern. 1741-1757
  
• Lizhe Wang, Marcel Kunze, Jie Tao:
  Performance evaluation of virtual machine-based Grid workflow system. 1759-1771
  
• Zhongwen Li, Yang Xiang:
  Checkpointing schemes for Grid workflow systems. 1773-1790
  
• Xiangfeng Luo, Qingliang Hu, Weimin Xu, Zhian Yu:
  Discovery of textual knowledge flow based on the management of knowledge maps. 1791-1806
  
• Ke Liu, Jinjun Chen, Yun Yang, Hai Jin:
  A throughput maximization strategy for scheduling transaction-intensive workflows on SwinDeW-G. 1807-1820
  
• Bo Liu, Yushun Fan, Shuangxi Huang:
  A service-oriented business performance evaluation model and the performance-aware service selection method. 1821-1836
  
• Erich Schikuta, Helmut Wanek, Irfan Ul Haq:
  Grid workflow optimization regarding dynamically changing resources and conditions. 1837-1849
  

Volume 20, Number 16, November 2008

• Hashim H. Mohamed, Dick H. J. Epema:
  KOALA: a co-allocating grid scheduler. 1851-1876
  
• Michael S. Noble:
  Getting more from your multicore: exploiting OpenMP from an open-source numerical scripting language. 1877-1891
  
• S. R. S. Souza, Silvia Regina Vergilio, P. S. L. Souza, A. S. Simão, Alexandre Ceolin Hausen:
  Structural testing criteria for message-passing parallel programs. 1893-1916
  
• Xiangfeng Luo, Ning Fang, Weimin Xu, Sheng Yu, Kai Yan, Huizhe Xiao:
  Experimental study on the extraction and distribution of textual domain keywords. 1917-1932
  
• Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio, Oreste Verta:
  The Weka4WS framework for distributed data mining in service-oriented Grids. 1933-1951
  
• Daniel Grosu, Anthony T. Chronopoulos, Ming-Ying Leung:
  Cooperative load balancing in distributed systems. 1953-1976
  

Volume 20, Number 17, 10 December 2008

• Jean-Marc Pierson, Harald Kosch:
  Special Issue: Selection of Best Papers of the VLDB Data Management in Grids Workshop (VLDB DMG 2007). 1977-1979
  

• Fuat Akal, Heiko Schuldt, Hans-Jörg Schek:
  Toward replication in grids for digital libraries with freshness and correctness guarantees. 1981-1993
  
• Nuno Santos, Birger Koblitz:
  Security in distributed metadata catalogues. 1995-2007
  
• Jürgen Göres, Stefan Dessloch:
  A metadata management framework for dynamic information integration. 2009-2023
  
• Tilmann Rabl, Marc Pfeffer, Harald Kosch:
  Dynamic allocation in a self-scaling cluster database. 2025-2038
  
• Nelson Kotowski, Alexandre A. B. Lima, Esther Pacitti, Patrick Valduriez, Marta Mattoso:
  Parallel query processing for OLAP in grids. 2039-2048
  
• Felix Hupfeld, Toni Cortes, Björn Kolbeck, Jan Stender, Erich Focht, Matthias Hess, Jesus Malo, Jonathan Martí, Eugenio Cesario:
  The XtreemFS architecture - a case for object-based file systems in Grids. 2049-2060
  
• Alessandro Bassi, Spyros Denazis, Pierpaolo Giacomin:
  Towards a Noah's ark for the upcoming data deluge. 2061-2074
  
• Norman W. Paton:
  Autonomics and data management. 2075-2088
  

Volume 20, Number 18, 25 December 2008

• Peter Gardfjäll, Erik Elmroth, S. Lennart Johnsson, Olle Mulmo, Thomas Sandholm:
  Scalable Grid-wide capacity allocation with the SweGrid Accounting System (SGAS). 2089-2122
  
• Zhou Lei, Gabrielle Allen, Promita Chakraborty, Dayong Huang, John Lewis, Xin Li, Christopher D. White:
  A Grid-enabled problem-solving environment for advanced reservoir uncertainty analysis. 2123-2140
  
• Wojtek Goscinski, David Abramson:
  Parallel programming on a high-performance application-runtime. 2141-2177
  
• Byoung-Hoon Lee, Sung-Hwa Lim, Jai-Hoon Kim, We-Duke Cho:
  Efficient and fair scheduling for two-level information broadcasting systems. 2179-2200