Abstract Ubiquitous Cloud Computing has been recently proposed as a new hybrid
computing model. This paradigm has two aspects:(a) Making use of cloud services to realize …

When students are working collaboratively and communicating verbally in a technology
enhanced environment, the system is not aware of what collaboration is happening outside …

Adaptiveness is an essential feature for distributed parallel applications executed on
dynamic environments like Grids and Clouds. Being adaptive means that parallel …

The interest towards real-time computing has lead an even more interest in grid computing.
While in the past the implementation of grid computing has been done on high performance …

In the last years we have seen the diffusion of platforms including high-performance nodes
(eg multicores) and powerful mobile devices (eg smartphones) interconnected by …

A central issue for parallel applications executed on heterogeneous distributed platforms (eg
Grids and Clouds) is assuring that performance and cost parameters are optimized …

Pervasive Grid Computing Platforms include centralized computing nodes (eg parallel
servers) as well as decentralized and mobile devices. Pervasive Grid applications include …

Programming models for Pervasive Computing applications typically include the possibility
of specifying software components according to multiple alternative versions, each …

The distributed computing is an approach relying on the presence of multiple devices that
can interact among them in order to perform a pervasive and parallel computing. This …

DIstributed parallel applications are complex sets of specialized software components which
cooperate in such a way as to perform a global goal in a distributed manner. Cooperation …