Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies

The past decade has witnessed a fruitful proliferation of increasingly high performance scalable computing systems mainly due to the availability of enabling technologies in hardware, software, and networks. The Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies presents ideas, results, and experiences in significant advancements and future challenges of enabling technologies. A defining body of research on topics such as service-oriented computing, data-intensive computing, and cluster and grid computing, this Handbook of Research contains valuable findings for those involved with developing programming tools and environments in computing as well as those in related upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses.

Kuan-Ching Li received PhD and MS degrees in electrical engineering and Licenciatura in mathematics from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). After he received his PhD, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Irvine (UCI) and University of Southern California (USC). His main research interests include cluster and grid computing, parallel software design, and life science applications. He has authored over 60 research papers and book chapters, and is the co-editor of the Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies (IGI Global) and volumes of LNCS and LNAI (Springer). He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Ching-Hsien Hsu received the BS and PhD degrees in computer science from Tung Hai University and Feng Chia University (Taiwan, 1995 and 1999, respectively). He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Chung Hua University (Taiwan). Dr. Hsu's research interests are primarily in parallel and distributed computing, grid computing, P2P computing, RFID, and services computing. Dr. Hsu has published more than 80 academic papers in journals, books, and conference proceedings. He was awarded annual outstanding researcher by Chung Hua University (2005, 2006 and 2007) and got the excellent research award (2008).

Laurence T. Yang is a professor with the Department of Computer Science at St Francis Xavier University (Canada). His research includes high performance computing and networking, embedded systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing, and intelligence. He has published around 300 papers (including over 80 international journal papers such as IEEE and ACM Transactions) in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more than 100 conferences and workshops as a program/general/steering conference chair and more than 300 conference and workshops as a program committee member. He has won 5 Best Paper Awards (including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06)) and 1 Best Paper Nomination in 2007; as well as a Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; and Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003.

Jack Dongarra holds an appointment at the University of Tennessee and holds the title of distinguished research staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing fellow at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award (2004) for his contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches and in 2008 he was the recipient of the IEEE Medal of Excellence in scalable computing. He is a fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Hans P. Zima is a principal scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and a professor emeritus of the University of Vienna (Austria). He received his PhD degree in mathematics and astronomy from the University of Vienna (1964). His major research interests have been in the fields of high-level programming languages, compilers, and advanced software tools. In the early 1970s, while working in industry, he designed and implemented one of the first high-level real-time languages for the German Air Traffic Control Agency. Dr. Zima is the author or co-author of about 200 publications, including 4 books.