Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 23

Volume 23, Number 1, January 2007

Regular papers

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  Sumit Naiksatam, Silvia M. Figueira:
  Elastic reservations for efficient bandwidth utilization in LambdaGrids. 1-22
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  Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Pierre Kuonen:
  Programming the Grid with POP-C ++. 23-30

Special section: Data mining in grid computing environments

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  Vlado Stankovski, Werner Dubitzky:
  Special section: Data mining in grid computing environments. 31-33
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  Antonio Congiusta, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio:
  Distributed data mining services leveraging WSRF. 34-41
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  María S. Pérez, Alberto Sánchez, Víctor Robles, Pilar Herrero, José M. Peña:
  Design and implementation of a data mining grid-aware architecture. 42-47
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  Ramesh Natarajan, Radu Sion, Thomas Phan:
  A grid-based approach for enterprise-scale data mining. 48-54
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  Mario Cannataro, Pietro Hiram Guzzi, Tommaso Mazza, Giuseppe Tradigo, Pierangelo Veltri:
  Using ontologies for preprocessing and mining spectra data on the Grid. 55-60
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  Jiewen Luo, Maoguang Wang, Jun Hu, Zhongzhi Shi:
  Distributed data mining on Agent Grid: Issues, platform and development toolkit. 61-68
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  Michael Wurst, Katharina Morik:
  Distributed feature extraction in a p2p setting - a case study. 69-75
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  Uko Maran, Sulev Sild, Iiris Kahn, Kalev Takkis:
  Mining of the chemical information in GRID environment. 76-83
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  Ping Luo, Kevin Lü, Zhongzhi Shi, Qing He:
  Distributed data mining in grid computing environments. 84-91
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  Hui Li, David L. Groep, Lex Wolters:
  Mining performance data for metascheduling decision support in the Grid. 92-99
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  Vasco Furtado, Francisco Flávio de Souza, Walfredo Cirne:
  Promoting performance and separation of concerns for data mining applications on the grid. 100-106

Special section: Data analysis, access and management on grids

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  María S. Pérez, Pilar Herrero:
  Special section: Data analysis, access and management on grids. 107-108
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  Houda Lamehamedi, Boleslaw K. Szymanski:
  Decentralized data management framework for Data Grids. 109-115
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  Félix García Carballeira, Jesús Carretero, Alejandro Calderón, José Daniel García, Luis Miguel Sánchez:
  A global and parallel file system for grids. 116-122
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  Soha Maad, Brian A. Coghlan, Geoff Quigley, John Ryan, Eamonn Kenny, David O'Callaghan:
  Towards a complete grid filesystem functionality. 123-131
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  Xiao Qin:
  Design and analysis of a load balancing strategy in Data Grids. 132-137
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  Alberto Sánchez, María S. Pérez, Konstantinos Karasavvas, Pilar Herrero, Antonio Pérez:
  MAPFS-DAI, an extension of OGSA-DAI based on a parallel file system. 138-145
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  Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana, Felix Freitag, Isaac Chao, Pablo Chacin, Leandro Navarro, Oscar Ardaiz:
  A catallactic market for data mining services. 146-153
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  David Taniar, Sushant Goel:
  Concurrency control issues in Grid databases. 154-162

Volume 23, Number 2, February 2007

Regular papers

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  Antonios Litke, Dimitrios Skoutas, Konstantinos Tserpes, Theodora A. Varvarigou:
  Efficient task replication and management for adaptive fault tolerance in Mobile Grid environments. 163-178
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  Alexandre Tiskin:
  Communication-efficient parallel generic pairwise elimination. 179-188
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  Giuliano Taffoni, Davide Maino, Claudio Vuerli, Giuliano Castelli, Riccardo Smareglia, Andrea Zacchei, Fabio Pasian:
  Enabling Grid technologies for Planck space mission. 189-200
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  Hongjun Liu, Ping Luo, Zhifeng Zeng:
  A structured hierarchical P2P model based on a rigorous binary tree code algorithm. 201-208
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  Yuan-Shun Dai, Gregory Levitin, Xiaolong Wang:
  Optimal task partition and distribution in grid service system with common cause failures. 209-218
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  Mattias Ellert, Michael Grønager, Aleksandr Konstantinov, Balázs Kónya, J. Lindemann, I. Livenson, Jakob Langgaard Nielsen, Marko Niinimäki, Oxana Smirnova, Anders Wäänänen:
  Advanced Resource Connector middleware for lightweight computational Grids. 219-240
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  James Salter, Nick Antonopoulos:
  An optimized two-tier P2P architecture for contextualized keyword searches. 241-251
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  Eduardo Huedo, Rubén S. Montero, Ignacio Martín Llorente:
  A modular meta-scheduling architecture for interfacing with pre-WS and WS Grid resource management services. 252-261

Special section: Information engineering and enterprise architecture in distributed computing environments

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  Sangkyun Kim:
  Special section: Information engineering and enterprise architecture in distributed computing environments. 262
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  Gun Ho Lee, Junsu Jung:
  Web framework with Java and XML in multi-tiers for productivity. 263-268
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  Frank G. Goethals, Wilfried Lemahieu, Monique Snoeck, Jacques Vandenbulcke:
  The data building blocks of the enterprise architect. 269-274
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  Minhyung Kim, Sangkyun Kim, Arcy J. Kong:
  High performance AAA architecture for massive IPv4 networks. 275-279

Volume 23, Number 3, March 2007

Special section: Semantic grid and knowledge grid

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  Hai Zhuge:
  Special section: Semantic grid and knowledge grid. 281-282
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  Jun Shen, Georg Grossmann, Yun Yang, Markus Stumptner, Michael Schrefl, Thomas Reiter:
  Analysis of business process integration in Web service context. 283-294
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  Martin Dimkovski, Kevin Deeb:
  Knowledge technology through functional layered intelligence. 295-303
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  Kwanghoon Pio Kim:
  A layered workflow knowledge Grid/P2P architecture and its models for future generation workflow systems. 304-316
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  Mehmet S. Aktas, Geoffrey C. Fox, Marlon E. Pierce:
  Fault tolerant high performance Information Services for dynamic collections of Grid and Web services. 317-337
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  Jianxun Liu, Jinmin Hu:
  Dynamic batch processing in workflows: Model and implementation. 338-347
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  Bartosz Kryza, Renata Slota, Marta Majewska, Jan Pieczykolan, Jacek Kitowski:
  Grid organizational memory - provision of a high-level Grid abstraction layer supported by ontology alignment. 348-358
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  Juan Yang, Yun Bai, Yuhui Qiu:
  A decentralized resource allocation policy in minigrid. 359-366

Special section: Life science grids for biomedicine and bioinformatics

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  Giovanni Aloisio, Vincent Breton, Maria Mirto, Almerico Murli, Tony Solomonides:
  Special section: Life science grids for biomedicine and bioinformatics. 367-370
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  Paolo D'Onorio De Meo, Danilo Carrabino, Nico Sanna, Tiziana Castrignanò, Giorgio Grillo, Flavio Licciulli, Sabino Liuni, Matteo Re, Flavio Mignone, Graziano Pesole:
  A high performance grid-web service framework for the identification of 'conserved sequence tags'. 371-381
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  Francesco Beltrame, Adam Papadimitropoulos, Ivan Porro, Silvia Scaglione, Andrea Schenone, Livia Torterolo, Federica Viti:
  GEMMA - A Grid environment for microarray management and analysis in bone marrow stem cells experiments. 382-390
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  Giovanni Ciriello, Matteo Comin, Concettina Guerra:
  Algorithmic re-structuring and data replication for protein structure comparison on a GRID. 391-397
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  Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi, Benjamin Parent, Dragos Horvath:
  A parallel hybrid genetic algorithm for protein structure prediction on the computational grid. 398-409
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  Olivier Bastien, Philippe Ortet, Sylvaine Roy, Eric Maréchal:
  The configuration space of homologous proteins: A theoretical and practical framework to reduce the diversity of the protein sequence space after massive all-by-all sequence comparisons. 410-427
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  Irina Strizh, Alexei Joutchkov, Nikolay Tverdokhlebov, Sergey Golitsyn:
  Systems Biology and grid technologies: Challenges for understanding complex cell signaling networks. 428-434
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  José-Jesús Fernández, Inmaculada García, José María Carazo, Roberto Marabini:
  Electron tomography of complex biological specimens on the Grid. 435-446
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  Richard O. Sinnott:
  From access and integration to mining of secure genomic data sets across the Grid. 447-456
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  Sharon Lloyd, David Gavaghan, Andrew Simpson, Matthew Mascord, Clint Seneurine, Geoff Williams, Joe Pitt-Francis, David R. S. Boyd, Damian Mac Randal, Lakshmi Sastry:
  Integrative Biology - the challenges of developing a collaborative research environment for heart and cancer modelling. 457-465
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  Marcelo Costa Oliveira, Walfredo Cirne, Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques:
  Towards applying content-based image retrieval in the clinical routine. 466-474
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  Roberto Bellotti, Piergiorgio Cerello, Sabina Sonia Tangaro, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Marcello Castellano, Giuseppe Mastronardi, Francesco De Carlo, Stefano Bagnasco, Ubaldo Bottigli, Rosella Cataldo:
  Distributed medical images analysis on a Grid infrastructure. 475-484
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  Adriana Budura, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer:
  From bioinformatic web portals to semantically integrated Data Grid networks. 485-496
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  Sung Lee, Taowei David Wang, Nada Hashmi, Michael P. Cummings:
  Bio-STEER: A Semantic Web workflow tool for Grid computing in the life sciences. 497-509
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  Nicola Cannata, Flavio Corradini, Emanuela Merelli:
  A Resourceomic Grid for bioinformatics. 510-516
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  Adam L. Bazinet, Daniel S. Myers, John Fuetsch, Michael P. Cummings:
  Grid Services Base Library: A high-level, procedural application programming interface for writing Globus-based Grid services. 517-522

Volume 23, Number 4, May 2007

Special section: Grid technology and applications

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  George A. Gravvanis, John P. Morrison, Hamid R. Arabnia:
  Special section: Grid technology and applications. 523-524
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  Andrew Hamilton-Wright, Deborah A. Stacey:
  'Cheap grid': Leveraging system failure using stochastic computation. 525-535
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  Ruay Shiung Chang, Po-Hung Chen:
  Complete and fragmented replica selection and retrieval in Data Grids. 536-546
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  Tyng-Yeu Liang, Chun-Yi Wu, Ce-Kuen Shieh, Jyh-Biau Chang:
  A grid-enabled software distributed shared memory system on a wide area network. 547-557
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  Seokcheon Lee, Soundar R. T. Kumara, Natarajan Gautam:
  Efficient scheduling algorithm for component-based networks. 558-568
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  Ching-Hsien Hsu, Tai-Lung Chen, Kuan-Ching Li:
  Performance effective pre-scheduling strategy for heterogeneous grid systems in the master slave paradigm. 569-579
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  Thomas Mailund, Christian N. S. Pedersen, Jonas Bardino, Brian Vinter, Henrik Hoey Karlsen:
  Experiences with GeneRecon on MiG. 580-586
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  Radu Prodan:
  Specification-correct and scalable coordination of Grid applications. 587-605
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  Anthony Sulistio, Gokul Poduval, Rajkumar Buyya, Chen-Khong Tham:
  On incorporating differentiated levels of network service into GridSim. 606-615
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  EunJoung Byun, SungJin Choi, MaengSoon Baik, Joon-Min Gil, Chan Yeol Park, Chong-Sun Hwang:
  MJSA: Markov job scheduler based on availability in desktop grid computing environment. 616-622
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  Sangyoon Oh, Geoffrey C. Fox:
  Optimizing Web Service messaging performance in mobile computing. 623-632
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  Ivan Djordjevic, Theodosis Dimitrakos, N. Romano, Damian Mac Randal, Pierluigi Ritrovato:
  Dynamic security perimeters for inter-enterprise service integration. 633-657
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  Dudy Lim, Yew-Soon Ong, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff, Bu-Sung Lee:
  Efficient Hierarchical Parallel Genetic Algorithms using Grid computing. 658-670

Volume 23, Number 5, June 2007

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  Gianluigi Folino, Giandomenico Spezzano:
  An autonomic tool for building self-organizing Grid-enabled applications. 671-679
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  Ashok Agarwal, M. Ahmed, Avery J. L. Berman, B. L. Caron, Andre Charbonneau, Denice Deatrich, Ronald J. Desmarais, Alexandros Dimopoulos, Ian Gable, L. S. Groer:
  GridX1: A Canadian computational grid. 680-687
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  Gunther Stuer, Kurt Vanmechelen, Jan Broeckhove:
  A commodity market algorithm for pricing substitutable Grid resources. 688-701
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  Giuliano Laccetti, Giovanni Schmid:
  A framework model for grid security. 702-713

Special section: Computer algebra systems and their applications, CASA 2003-06: Selected papers

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  Andrés Iglesias:
  Special section: Computer algebra systems and their applications, CASA'2003-06: Selected papers. 714-715
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  Ünal Ufuktepe, Goksen Bacak:
  Applying Mathematica and webMathematica to graph coloring. 716-720
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  Hitoshi Yanami, Hirokazu Anai:
  The Maple package SyNRAC and its application to robust control design. 721-726
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  Akemi Gálvez, Andrés Iglesias:
  Symbolic/numeric analysis of chaotic synchronization with a CAS. 727-733

Volume 23, Number 6, July 2007

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  Bahman Javadi, Mohammad K. Akbari, Jemal H. Abawajy:
  Analytical communication networks model for enterprise Grid computing. 737-747
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  Jun Yan, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Jian Lin, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, SukKeong Goh, Jian Ying Zhang:
  Autonomous service level agreement negotiation for service composition provision. 748-759
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  Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar, Thomas Fahringer:
  Performance metrics and ontologies for Grid workflows. 760-772
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  Bartosz Kryza, Renata Slota, Marta Majewska, Jan Pieczykolan, Jacek Kitowski:
  Erratum to "Grid organizational memory - provision of a high-level Grid abstraction layer supported by ontology alignment" [Future Gener. Comput. Systems 23 (2007) 348-358]. 773

Special section: Security on grids and distributed systems

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  María S. Pérez, Bin Xiao:
  Special section: Security on grids and distributed systems. 774-775
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  Xukai Zou, Yuan-Shun Dai, Xiang Ran:
  Dual-Level Key Management for secure grid communication in dynamic and hierarchical groups. 776-786
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  Lijun Liao, Mark Manulis:
  Tree-based group key agreement framework for mobile ad-hoc networks. 787-803
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  Song Fu, Cheng-Zhong Xu:
  Coordinated access control with temporal and spatial constraints on mobile execution in coalition environments. 804-815
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  Mais Nijim, Ziliang Zong, Xiao Qin:
  StReD: A quality of security framework for storage resources in Data Grids. 816-824
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  Jinpeng Huai, Hailong Sun, Chunming Hu, Yanmin Zhu, Yunhao Liu, Jianxin Li:
  ROST: Remote and hot service deployment with trustworthiness in CROWN Grid. 825-835

Volume 23, Number 7, August 2007

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  Zhixing Huang, Yuhui Qiu:
  Resource trading using cognitive agents: A hybrid perspective and its simulation. 837-845
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  Ruay-Shiung Chang, Jih-Sheng Chang, Shin-Yi Lin:
  Job scheduling and data replication on data grids. 846-860

Special section: Paradigms for scalable and dependable grids

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  Artur Andrzejak, Alexander Reinefeld:
  Special section: Paradigms for scalable and dependable grids. 861-863
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  Paolo Trunfio, Domenico Talia, Harris Papadakis, Paraskevi Fragopoulou, Matteo Mordacchini, M. Pennanen, Konstantin Popov, Vladimir Vlassov, Seif Haridi:
  Peer-to-Peer resource discovery in Grids: Models and systems. 864-878
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  Denis Caromel, Alexandre di Costanzo, Christian Delbé:
  Peer-to-Peer and fault-tolerance: Towards deployment-based technical services. 879-887
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  Derrick Kondo, Gilles Fedak, Franck Cappello, Andrew A. Chien, Henri Casanova:
  Characterizing resource availability in enterprise desktop grids. 888-903
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  Patrício Domingues, Bruno Sousa, Luís Moura Silva:
  Sabotage-tolerance and trust management in desktop grid computing. 904-912
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  William Hoarau, Sébastien Tixeuil, Fabien Vauchelles:
  FAIL-FCI: Versatile fault injection. 913-919

Volume 23, Number 8, November 2007

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  Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos, Stephen Mackin:
  Fault-tolerant peer-to-peer search on small-world networks. 921-931
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  Saeed Parsa, Fereshteh-Azadi Parand:
  Cooperative decision making in a knowledge grid environment. 932-938
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  Hong Wang, Hiroyuki Takizawa, Hiroaki Kobayashi:
  A dependable Peer-to-Peer computing platform. 939-955

Special section: Grid-like distributed computing in amorphous networks

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  Richard Olejnik:
  Special section: Grid-like distributed computing in amorphous networks. 956
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  Isaac D. Scherson, Daniel S. Valencia, Enrique Cauich, John U. Duselis, Richert Wang:
  Federated grid clusters using service address routed optical networks. 957-967
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  Eddy Caron, Vincent Garonne, Andrei Tsaregorodtsev:
  Definition, modelling and simulation of a grid computing scheduling system for high throughput computing. 968-976
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  Eryk Laskowski, Marek S. Tudruj, Richard Olejnik, Bernard Toursel:
  Byte-code scheduling of Java programs with branches for desktop grid. 977-982
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  Baohua Wei, Gilles Fedak, Franck Cappello:
  Towards efficient data distribution on computational desktop grids with BitTorrent. 983-989
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  Dan Grigoras, Mark Riordan:
  Cost-effective mobile ad hoc networks management. 990-996
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  Valérie Fiolet, Bernard Toursel:
  A clustering method to distribute a database on a grid. 997-1002