Special issue: Applied parallel computing

Special Purpose Parallel Computing

A vast amount of work has been done in recent years on the design, analysis, implementation and veriication of special purpose parallel computing systems. This paper presents a survey of various aspects of this work. A long, but by no means complete, bibliography is given.

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Collaborative Computing and Applications J.UCS Special Issue

Evolving from parallel computing, cluster computing, grid computing, to nowadays cloud computing, the distributed computing paradigm has been shifting from parallelization, distribution, sharing, to be able to support full-scale collaboration between systems and people. This new computing paradigm can be called collaborative computing, composing of technologies and techniques to facilitate peop...

Special Issue: Middleware for Grid Computing

We are pleased to present a special issue of best papers presented at the 4th International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2006), which was held in conjunction with the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference during November 2006 in Melbourne, Australia. The goal of the fourth edition of the MGC workshop was to bring together researches in the field of middleware...

Editorial for Special Issue on Pervasive Computing

Pervasive (or Ubiquitous) Computing aims to seamlessly integrate computing and communication with our environment so as to make our day-today activities the central focus rather than the computing or communication devices per se. Mark Weiser in his 1991 visionary paper " The Computer for 21st Century " laid the foundations of this field. Last decade has seen a steady increase in the momentum fo...