Special issue: Advances in distributed systems services for grid, cloud and large-scale computing paradigms

International Journal of Web and Grid Services 8(3) 2012

Papers from the 14th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems held in Tirana, Albania, 7-9 September 2011.

• Specifying and implementing an eventual leader service for dynamic systems
• Self-adaptive approximate queries for large-scale information aggregation
• Glueing grids and clouds together: a service-oriented approach
• Mobility management for multimedia services in heterogeneous environments
• The smart-travel system: utilising cloud services to aid traveller with personalised requirement
• Comparative parallel execution of SWAT hydrological model on multicore and grid architectures