Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 146

Volume 146, December 2020

Special issue on Blockchain-enabled Secure Communications in Smart Cities

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  Dongdong Yue, Ruixuan Li, Yan Zhang, Wenlong Tian, Yongfeng Huang:
  Blockchain-based verification framework for data integrity in edge-cloud storage. 1-14

Special issue on Enabling Technologies for Energy Cloud

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  Morteza Dabbaghjamanesh, Amirhossein Moeini, Abdollah Kavousi-Fard, Alireza Jolfaei:
  Real-time monitoring and operation of microgrid using distributed cloud-fog architecture. 15-24

Special issue on Cloud-of-Things and Edge Computing: Recent Advances and Future Trends

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  M. Anwar Hossain, Rahatara Ferdousi, Mohammed F. Alhamid:
  Knowledge-driven machine learning based framework for early-stage disease risk prediction in edge environment. 25-34

Regular Articles

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  Tong Jin, Fan Zhang, Qian Sun, Melissa Romanus, Hoang Bui, Manish Parashar:
  Towards autonomic data management for staging-based coupled scientific workflows. 35-51

Short Communication

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  Ander Biguri, Reuben Lindroos, Robert Bryll, Hossein Towsyfyan, Hans Deyhle, Ibrahim El Khalil Harrane, Richard P. Boardman, Mark Mavrogordato, Manjit Dosanjh, Steven Hancock, Thomas Blumensath:
  Arbitrarily large tomography with iterative algorithms on multiple GPUs using the TIGRE toolbox. 52-63

Special issue on Enabling Technologies for Energy Cloud

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  Lingxia Liao, Han-Chieh Chao, Mu-Yen Chen:
  Intelligently modeling, detecting, and scheduling elephant flows in software defined energy cloud: A survey. 64-78

Regular Articles

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  Karine Altisen, Ajoy K. Datta, Stéphane Devismes, Anaïs Durand, Lawrence L. Larmore:
  Election in unidirectional rings with homonyms. 79-95
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  Shuaibing Lu, Jie Wu, Yubin Duan, Ning Wang, Juan Fang:
  Towards cost-efficient resource provisioning with multiple mobile users in fog computing. 96-106

Special issue on Selected papers from IPDPS’19

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  Nishant Saurabh, Shajulin Benedict, Jorge G. Barbosa, Radu Prodan:
  Expelliarmus: Semantic-centric virtual machine image management in IaaS Clouds. 107-121

Regular Articles

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  Ting Cao, Xiaopu Peng, Chaowei Zhang, Taha Khalid Al Tekreeti, Jianzhou Mao, Xiao Qin, Jianzhong Huang:
  A popularity-aware reconstruction technique in erasure-coded storage systems. 122-138

Special issue on Enabling Technologies for Energy Cloud

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  Muhammad Nawaz Khan, Haseeb Ur Rahman, Muhammad Zahid Khan:
  An Energy Efficient Adaptive Scheduling Scheme (EASS) for Mesh Grid Wireless Sensor Networks. 139-157

Regular Articles

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  Michael Orr, Oliver Sinnen:
  Optimal task scheduling benefits from a duplicate-free state-space. 158-174
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  Yang Wang, Shan Cao, Hongshuai Ren, Jianjun Li, Kejiang Ye, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Xi Chen:
  Towards cost-effective service migration in mobile edge: A Q-learning approach. 175-188
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  Yuqi Fan, Chen Wang, Bei Zhang, Shuyang Gu, Weili Wu, Ding-Zhu Du:
  Data placement in distributed data centers for improved SLA and network cost. 189-200
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  Yuichi Sudo, Ajoy K. Datta, Lawrence L. Larmore, Toshimitsu Masuzawa:
  Self-stabilizing token distribution on trees with constant space. 201-211