Special issue on Middleware Services for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing (MidHDC)

Middleware solutions for Heterogeneous Distributes System aim to respond to high requirements of large scale distributed applications related to performance, flexibility, extensibility, portability, availability, reliability, safety, security, trust, and scalability, in the context of high number of users, and large geographic distribution of heterogeneous hardware and software resources. The solutions used in the design, implementation, and deployment of systems with such capabilities are based on monitoring, scheduling, optimization, sharing, balancing, discovery, and synchronization methods and techniques that are continuously improved. New services and functionality are added to the middleware to ease the development of new and highly demanding applications with low cost and high performance. New architectures and policies are designed to incorporate solutions for the management of data, resources, tasks, and applications, ensure fault tolerance, accounting, service on demand, and other functions required by user communities to operate effectively a shared services environment.

The scientific contributions targeted by this special issue refer to Cluster Computing, Grid Computing, Peer-to-Peer Computing, and Cloud Computing all involving elements of heterogeneity. These computing distributed systems are often characterized by a variety of resources that may or may not be coupled with specific platforms or environments. All these topics challenge today researchers, due to the strong dynamic behavior of the user communities and of resource collections they use. The special issue is oriented on computer and information science that develops and optimizes the advanced system software, networking, and data management components. We consider that our special issue will come with new and novel added value in the domain of Middleware Services for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing.

Topics of Interest

This special issue calls for original papers describing the latest research and innovations, solutions and developments on Advances Topics on Middleware Services for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics in focus of this special issue:

• Architectural solutions for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing
• Models and techniques for data intensive computing
• Parallel/Distributed Architectures
• Real-Time Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware
• Parallel and Distributed Applications and Web Services
• Middleware for Big Data Platforms
• Parallel I/O Systems and Storage Systems
• Protocols for High Performance Communication
• Distributed Resource Management
• Scheduling and Meta-Scheduling
• Mapping, Scheduling and Synchronization
• Workflow Management
• Distributed Load Balancing
• Tools and Environments for Parallel & Distributed Software Development
• Analysis and Design of Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
• Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing
• Security in Parallel and Distributed Systems

Submission Guidelines

The submitted papers must be original and must not be under consideration in any other venue.

Papers will be peer reviewed by independent reviewers and selected based on originality, scientific quality and relevance to this Special Issue and will be accepted or rejected in line with the usual standards of FGCS. The journal editors will make final decisions on the acceptance of the papers.

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the Future Generation Computer Systems at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/. Authors should select “SI: MidHDC” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.

Important dates

Manuscript Due: May 1st, 2015
First Decision Date August 1st, 2015
Revision Due: September 15th, 2015
Second Revision and Second Decision: November 1st, 2015
Final Decision: December 1st, 2015
Publication: February 2016 (planned)

Guest Editors

Florin Pop (Corresponding Editor)
University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: florin.pop@cs.pub.ro

Xiaomin Zhu
College of Information Systems and Management at National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
E-mail: xmzhu@nudt.edu.cn

Laurence T. Yang
St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
E-mail: ltyang@ieee.org