EMV, also known as" Chip and PIN", is the leading system for card payments worldwide. It is
used throughout Europe and much of Asia, and is starting to be introduced in North America …

Grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have emerged as popular platforms for the next
generation parallel and distributed computing. In these environments, resources are …

Grid benchmarking is an important and challenging topic of Grid computing research. In this
paper, we present an overview of the key challenges that need to be addressed for the …

Artificial Neural Nets are among the most commonly used methods in high-energy
applications for data pre-processing. The training phase of the ANN is critical in obtaining a …

Abstract The Polish Grid Initiative commenced in 2009 as part of the PL-Grid project funded
within the framework of the Innovative Economy Operational Programme. The main …

This paper presents design concepts and implementation overview of an Internet-sharing
system, iShare. iShare supports end users as well as providers of Internet resources in …

Image data is structurally more complex than traditional types of data. An image can be
viewed as a compound object containing many sub-objects. Each sub-object corresponds to …

The goal of the EU IST int. eu. grid project is to build middleware facilities which enable the
execution of real-time and interactive applications on the Grid. Within this research, relevant …

The next generation of high energy physics experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, pose a challenge to …

This paper presents an approach to development of interactive Grid applications used in the
application development platform (Appea), currently under development. The presented …