Editorial Board
Contents
The Climate-G Portal: The context, key features and a multi-dimensional analysis
Scheduling efficiency of resource information aggregation in grid networks
Overlay network resource allocation using a decentralized market-based approach
Special section: Recent advances in utility and cloud computing
Cost–benefit analysis of an SLA mapping approach for defining standardized Cloud computing goods
A structured marketplace for arbitrary services
Deadline-driven provisioning of resources for scientific applications in hybrid clouds with Aneka
OPTIMIS: A holistic approach to cloud service provisioning
Transparent VPN failure recovery with virtualization
Virtual machine provisioning through satellite communications in federated Cloud environments
Policy based resource allocation in IaaS cloud
Feedback-based optimization of a private cloud
Towards efficient data search and subsetting of large-scale atmospheric datasets
Dynamic energy efficient data placement and cluster reconfiguration algorithm for MapReduce framework
Adaptive heterogeneous language support within a cloud runtime
Architecture for the next generation system management tools
An autonomic cloud environment for hosting ECG data analysis services
Empirical prediction models for adaptive resource provisioning in the cloud
Independent checkpointing in a heterogeneous grid environment
Case for dynamic deployment in a grid-based distributed query processor
Adapting scientific computing problems to clouds using MapReduce
Workflow management for soft real-time interactive applications in virtualized environments
High performance biometrics recognition algorithms and systems
A novel maximum margin neighborhood preserving embedding for face recognition
A secure biometric discretization scheme for face template protection
Adaptively weighted sub-directional two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis for face recognition
Random local region descriptor (RLRD): A new method for fixed-length feature representation of fingerprint image and its application to template protection
Enhanced semi-supervised local Fisher discriminant analysis for face recognition
Fractional dual tree complex wavelet transform and its application to biometric security during communication and transmission
Biometrics-based consumer applications driven by reconfigurable hardware architectures
Palmprint based recognition system using phase-difference information
A biometric identity-based signcryption scheme
A high performance fingerprint liveness detection method based on quality related features
Automatic extraction of face contours in images and videos
