Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 67

Volume 67, February 2017

Regular papers

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  Hai Zhuge, Lei He:
  Automatic maintenance of category hierarchy. 1-12
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  Yiwei Jiang, Yuqing Zhu, Weili Wu, Deying Li:
  Makespan minimization for MapReduce systems with different servers. 13-21
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  Zhao-Hong Jia, Xiaohao Li, Joseph Y.-T. Leung:
  Minimizing makespan for arbitrary size jobs with release times on P-batch machines with arbitrary capacities. 22-34
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  Renato L. F. Cunha, Eduardo R. Rodrigues, Leonardo P. Tizzei, Marco A. S. Netto:
  Job placement advisor based on turnaround predictions for HPC hybrid clouds. 35-46
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  Manuel A. Regueiro, José Ramon Rios Viqueira, Christoph Stasch, José A. Taboada:
  Semantic mediation of observation datasets through Sensor Observation Services. 47-56
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  Hamed Orojloo, Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi:
  A method for evaluating the consequence propagation of security attacks in cyber-physical systems. 57-71
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  Mohamed Ben Belgacem, Bastien Chopard:
  MUSCLE-HPC: A new high performance API to couple multiscale parallel applications. 72-82
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  John Oyekan, Vinayak Prabhu, Ashutosh Tiwari, Vinubha Baskaran, Mark Burgess, Rob Mcnally:
  Remote real-time collaboration through synchronous exchange of digitised human-workpiece interactions. 83-93
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  Meera Vasudevan, Yu-Chu Tian, Maolin Tang, Erhan Kozan:
  Profile-based application assignment for greener and more energy-efficient data centers. 94-108
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  Sarbjeet Singh, Jagpreet Sidhu:
  Compliance-based Multi-dimensional Trust Evaluation System for determining trustworthiness of Cloud Service Providers. 109-132
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  Y. Sreenivasa Rao:
  A secure and efficient Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Signcryption for Personal Health Records sharing in cloud computing. 133-151
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  Yi-Fan Zhang, Yu-Chu Tian, Wayne Kelly, Colin J. Fidge:
  Scalable and efficient data distribution for distributed computing of all-to-all comparison problems. 152-162
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  Antônio Marcos Alberti, Marco A. F. Casaroli, Dhananjay Singh, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi:
  Naming and name resolution in the future internet: Introducing the NovaGenesis approach. 163-179
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  Chung-Sheng Li, Hubertus Franke, Colin Parris, Bülent Abali, Mukil Kesavan, Victor I. Chang:
  Composable architecture for rack scale big data computing. 180-193
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  Cheng Chang, Ligang He, Nadeem Chaudhary, Songling Fu, Hao Chen, Jianhua Sun, Kenli Li, Zhangjie Fu, Ming-Liang Xu:
  Performance analysis and optimization for workflow authorization. 194-205
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  Kyriakos Kritikos, Tom Kirkham, Bartosz Kryza, Philippe Massonet:
  Towards a security-enhanced PaaS platform for multi-cloud applications. 206-226

Preface of the Special Issue of New Paradigms for Information and Services Management in Grid and Pervasive Computing

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  Marek R. Ogiela, Leonard Barolli:
  New paradigms for information and services management in grid and pervasive computing. 227-229

Special issue of New Paradigms for Information and Services Management in Grid and Pervasive Computing

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  Arcangelo Castiglione, Raffaele Pizzolante, Christian Esposito, Alfredo De Santis, Francesco Palmieri, Aniello Castiglione:
  A collaborative clinical analysis service based on theory of evidence, fuzzy linguistic sets and prospect theory and its application to craniofacial disorders in infants. 230-241
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  Xu An Wang, Jianfeng Ma, Fatos Xhafa, Mingwu Zhang, Xiaoshuang Luo:
  Cost-effective secure E-health cloud system using identity based cryptographic techniques. 242-254
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  Flora Amato, Francesco Moscato:
  Exploiting Cloud and Workflow Patterns for the Analysis of Composite Cloud Services. 255-265
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  Jianfeng Wang, Xiaofeng Chen, Jin Li, Jiaolian Zhao, Jian Shen:
  Towards achieving flexible and verifiable search for outsourced database in cloud computing. 266-275
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  Baojiang Cui, Peilin Shi, Weikong Qi, Ming Li:
  Uploading multiply deferrable big data to the cloud platform using cost-effective online algorithms. 276-285
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  Václav Snásel, Jana Nowaková, Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli:
  Geometrical and topological approaches to Big Data. 286-296
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  Tomasz Hachaj, Marek R. Ogiela:
  Clustering of trending topics in microblogging posts: A graph-based approach. 297-304
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  Zhou Shao, David Taniar, Kiki Maulana Adhinugraha:
  Voronoi-based Range-kNN search with Map Grid in a mobile environment. 305-314
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  Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Jaehoon (Paul) Jeong, Hoon Ko, Hyoungshick Kim:
  Security challenges with network functions virtualization. 315-324

Preface of the Special issue of Boosting Analyses in the Life Sciences via Clusters, Grids and Clouds

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  Sandra Gesing, Jesús Carretero, Francisco Javier García Blas, Johan Montagnat:
  Boosting analyses in the life sciences via clusters, grids and clouds. 325-328

Special issue of Boosting Analyses in the Life Sciences via Clusters, Grids and Clouds

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  Michael T. Krieger, Óscar Torreño Tirado, Oswaldo Trelles, Dieter Kranzlmüller:
  Building an open source cloud environment with auto-scaling resources for executing bioinformatics and biomedical workflows. 329-340
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  Christophe Pradal, Simon Artzet, Jérôme Chopard, Dimitri Dupuis, Christian Fournier, Michael Mielewczik, Vincent Nègre, Pascal Neveu, Didier Parigot, Patrick Valduriez, Sarah Cohen Boulakia:
  InfraPhenoGrid: A scientific workflow infrastructure for plant phenomics on the Grid. 341-353
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  Idafen Santana Pérez, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Mats Rynge, Ewa Deelman, María S. Pérez-Hernández, Óscar Corcho:
  Reproducibility of execution environments in computational science using Semantics and Clouds. 354-367
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  Christopher Smowton, Andoena Balla, Demetris Antoniades, Crispin J. Miller, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Wei Xing:
  A cost-effective approach to improving performance of big genomic data analyses in clouds. 368-381
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  Sofia Guzzetti, Tiziano Passerini, Jaroslaw Slawinski, Umberto Villa, Alessandro Veneziani, Vaidy S. Sunderam:
  Platform and algorithm effects on computational fluid dynamics applications in life sciences. 382-396
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  Guiyeom Kang, Claudio Márquez, Ana Barat, Annette T. Byrne, Jochen H. M. Prehn, Joan Sorribes, Eduardo César:
  Colorectal tumour simulation using agent based modelling and high performance computing. 397-408
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  Dries Harnie, Mathijs Saey, Alexander E. Vapirev, Jörg Kurt Wegner, Andrey Gedich, Marvin N. Steijaert, Hugo Ceulemans, Roel Wuyts, Wolfgang De Meuter:
  Scaling machine learning for target prediction in drug discovery using Apache Spark. 409-417
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  Danilo Carastan-Santos, Raphael Y. de Camargo, David Correa Martins Jr., Siang W. Song, Luiz C. S. Rozante:
  Finding exact hitting set solutions for systems biology applications using heterogeneous GPU clusters. 418-429
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  Sérgio E. D. Dias, Quoc T. Nguyen, Joaquim A. Jorge, Abel J. P. Gomes:
  Multi-GPU-based detection of protein cavities using critical points. 430-440
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  Diogo Telmo Neves, João Luís Sobral:
  Parallel SuperFine - A tool for fast and accurate supertree estimation: Features and limitations. 441-454
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  Michal Kierzynka, Lars Kosmann, Micha vor dem Berge, Stefan Krupop, Jens Hagemeyer, Rene Griessl, Meysam Peykanu, Ariel Oleksiak:
  Energy efficiency of sequence alignment tools - Software and hardware perspectives. 455-465
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  Maximilian Beier, Christoph Jansen, Geert Mayer, Thomas Penzel, Andrea Rodenbeck, René Siewert, Michael Witt, Jie Wu, Dagmar Krefting:
  Multicenter data sharing for collaboration in sleep medicine. 466-480
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  Edvard Pedersen, Lars Ailo Bongo:
  Large-scale biological meta-database management. 481-489