This book is intended for researchers and practitioners as a foundation for modern parallel
computing with several of its important parallel applications, and also for students as a basic …

This paper addresses two problems lying at the intersection of geometric analysis and
theoretical computer science: The non-linear isomorphic Dvoretzky theorem and the design …

We formulate the service composition problem as a multi-objective stochastic program which
simultaneously optimizes the following quality of service (QoS) parameters: workflow …

Computational finance is an important application area for high-performance computing
today. Large computational resources are used for a variety of operations related to …

Time is gold. This is particularly true in financial markets because every second is passing
you can't go back to change previous actions. Any delays are generally unacceptable as the …

In this paper we review the central concepts of the Open Grid Service Environment, which
represents an abstract service stack and was introduced to design workflow-based problem …

Portfolio optimization is an area of tremendous importance for long-term investors. It is
concerned with the problem of how to best diversify investment into different classes of …

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Abstract Multi-Experiment Studies (MESs) is a type of computational study in which the same
simulation software is executed multiple times, and the result of all executions need to be …