{"title":"Virtual EZ Grid: A Volunteer Computing Infrastructure for Scientific Medical Applications","authors":"M. B. Belgacem, N. Abdennadher, Marko Niinimäki","doi":"10.4018/jhcr.2012010105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jhcr.2012010105","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the Virtual EZ Grid project, based on the XtremWeb-CH (XWCH) volunteer computing platform The goal of the project is to introduce a flexible distributed computing system, with (i) a non-trivial number of computing resources infrastructure from various institutes, (ii) a stable platform that manages these computing resources and provides advanced interfaces for applications, and (iii) a set of applications that take benefit of the platform This paper concentrates on the application support of the new version of XWCH, and describes how a medical image application MedGIFT utilises it.","PeriodicalId":359659,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR)","volume":"519 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123437080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Petri-Net Based Context Representation in Smart Car Environment","authors":"Jie Sun, Yongping Zhang, Jianbo Fan","doi":"10.4018/jhcr.2011040103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jhcr.2011040103","url":null,"abstract":"Driving is a complex process influenced by a wide range of factors, especially complex interactions between the driver, the vehicle and the environment This paper aims at the representation of complex situations in smart car domain Unlike existing context-aware systems which isolate one context situation from another, such as road congestion and car deceleration, this paper proposes a context model which considers the driver, vehicle and environment as a whole The paper tries to discover the inherent relationship between the situations in the smart car environment, and proposes a context model to support the representation of situations and their correlation The detailed example scenarios are given to illustrate our idea.","PeriodicalId":359659,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129672328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DSOA: A Service Oriented Architecture for Ubiquitous Applications","authors":"F. Buzeto, C. B. P. Filho, C. Castanho, R. Jacobi","doi":"10.4018/jhcr.2011040104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jhcr.2011040104","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous environments are composed by a wide variety of devices, each one with different characteristics like communication protocol, programming and hardware platforms These devices range from powerful equipments, like PCs, to limited ones, like cell phones, sensors and actuators The services provided by an ubiquitous environment rely on the interaction among devices In order to support the development of applications in this context, the heterogeneity of communication protocols must be abstracted and the functionalities dynamically provided by devices should be easily available to application developers This paper proposes a Device Service Oriented Architecture (DSOA) as an abstraction layer to help organizing devices and its resources in a ubiquitous environment, while hiding details about communication protocols from developers Based on DSOA, a lightweight middleware (uOS) and a high level protocol (uP) were developed A use case is presented to illustrate the application of these concepts.","PeriodicalId":359659,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130939920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}