Volume 7, Number 1, 2006

Editorial

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  Shahram Rahimi: Toward a Performance Evaluation Methodology for the Pi-Calculus Family of Formal Modeling Languages.

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Shahram Rahimi, Raheel Ahmad: Software Agent Technology.

Special Issue

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  Donal O'Kane, Gregory M. P. O'Hare, David Marsh, Song Shen, Richard Tynan: Agents Go Traveling.
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  Yinglong Ma, Beihong Jin, Mingquan Zhou: Exploiting Shared Ontology with Default Information for Web Agents.
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  David G. A. Mobach, Benno J. Overeinder, Frances M. T. Brazier: A WS-Agreement Based Resource Negotiation Framework for Mobile Agents.
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  Giacomo Cabri: Agent Composition via Role-based Infrastructures.
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  Maria Ganzha, Wojciech Kuranowski, Marcin Paprzycki: Software agents in support of student mobility.

Research paper

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  Joseph C. Jacob, James B. Collier, Loring Craymer, David W. Curkendall: yourSkyG: Large-Scale Astronomical Image Mosaicking on the Information Power Grid.
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  Brian J. d'Auriol, Maria Beltran: A Historical Analysis of Fiber Based Optical Bus Parallel Computing Models.

Volume 7, Number 2, 2006

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Przemyslaw Stpiczynski: Large Scale Computations on Grids.

Special Issue

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  Olaf Bonorden, Joachim Gehweiler, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide: A Web Computing Environment for Parallel Algorithms in Java.
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  Dana Petcu, Daniel Vizman, Marcin Paprzycki: Heuristic Load Balancing for CFD Codes Executed in Heterogeneous Computing Environments.
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  Jose Herrera, Eduardo Huedo, Rubén S. Montero, Ignacio Martín Llorente: Benchmarking of a Joint IRISGrid/EGEE Testbed with a Bioinformatics Application.
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  Simone A. Ludwig, Omer F. Rana, William Naylor, Julian A. Padget: Mathematical Service Discovery: Architecture, Implementation and Performance.

Research paper

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  Haïscam Abdallah: Parallel Implementation of Uniformization to Compute the Transient Solution of Stochastic Automata Networks.
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  Devaraya Prabhu, Bill P. Buckles, Frederick E. Petry: A SIMD Environment for Genetic Algorithms with Interconnected Subpopulations.
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  Norman Scaife, Greg Michaelson, Susumu Horiguchi: Parallel Standard ML with Skeletons.
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  Kai Wang, Jun Zhang, Chi Shen: A Class of Parallel Multilevel Sparse Approximate Inverse Preconditioners for Sparse Linear Systems.

Book review

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  Ami Marowka: Parallel Scientific Computation: A Structured Approach using BSP and MPI.

Volume 7, Number 3, 2006

Editorial

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  Janusz S. Kowalik: Quo Vadis Grid Computing.

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Frédéric Loulergue: Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming.

Special Issue

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  Norman Scaife, Greg Michaelson, Susumu Horiguchi: Empirical Parallel Performance Prediction From Semantics-Based Profiling.
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  Abdallah Al Zain, Philip W. Trinder, Greg Michaelson, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl: Managing Heterogeneity in a Grid Parallel Haskell.
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  Yang Zhang, Edward A. Luke: Dynamic Memory Management in the Loci Framework.
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  Dana Petcu: A Parallel Rule-based System and Its Experimental Usage in Membrane Computing.
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  María Engracia Gómez, Pedro López, José Duato: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Routing Strategy for Tori and Meshes.
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  J. Buisson, F. André, Jean-Louis Pazat: Afpac: Enforcing consistency during the adaptation of a parallel component.
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  Padraig J. O'Dowd, Adarsh Patil, John P. Morrison: WebCom-G and MPICH-G2 Jobs.

Research paper

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  Shujun Li, Elise de Doncker, Karlis Kaugars: Pion: A Problem Solving Environment for Parallel Multivariate Integration.
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  Amy W. Apon, Gregory E. Monaco, Gordon K. Springer: The Great Plains Network (GPN) Middleware Test Bed.

Volume 7, Number 4, 2006

Editorial

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  Niranjan Suri, Henry Hexmoor: Mobility in Distributed Systems.

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Henry Hexmoor, Marcin Paprzycki, Niranjan Suri: Software Agent Mobility.

Special Issue

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  Walter Binder, Volker Roth: Security Risks in Java-based Mobile Code Systems.
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  Lorenzo Bettini, Rocco De Nicola, Michele Loreti: Implementing Mobile and Distributed Applications in X-Klaim.
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  Raffaele Quitadamo, Letizia Leonardi, Giacomo Cabri: Leveraging strong agent mobility for Aglets with the Mobile JikesRVM framework.
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  Luc Moreau: A Fault-Tolerant Directory Service for Mobile Agents based on Forwarding Pointers.
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  Benno J. Overeinder, D. R. A. de Groot, Niek J. E. Wijngaards, Frances M. T. Brazier: Generative Mobile Agent Migration in Heterogeneous Environments.
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  Volker Roth, Jan Peters, Ulrich Pinsdorf: A Distributed Content-Based Search Engine Based on Mobile Code and Web Service Technology.

Book review

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  Raheel Ahmad: Expert Systems: Principles and Programming.