In this paper, we propose a recognition scheme for the Indian script of Devanagari.
Recognition accuracy of Devanagari script is not yet comparable to its Roman counterparts …

Infrastructure cloud computing introduces a significant paradigm shift that has the potential
to revolutionize how scientific computing is done. However, while it is actively adopted by a …

The emergence of cloud computing infrastructures brings new ways to build and manage
computing systems, with the flexibility offered by virtualization technologies. In this context …

The ability to conduct consistent, controlled, and repeatable large-scale experiments in all
areas of computer science related to parallel, large-scale, or distributed computing and …

In response to the ever-increasing needs of scientific applications for resources, Cloud
computing emerged as an alternative on-demand and cost-effective resource provisioning …

The increasing needs for computing power have led to parallel and distributed computing,
which harness the power of large computing infrastructures in a concurrent manner …

Cloud providers such as Amazon recognized the importance of workflows to science and
engineering and started to provide highly tuned solutions integrated into their native …

Résumé Les applications Monte-Carlo sont facilement parallélisables, mais une
parallélisation efficace sur des grilles de calcul est difficile à réaliser. Des stratégies …

I would like to start these acknowledgments by thanking all the members of my thesis
defense committee. Thank you to Frédéric Desprez and Pierre Sens for making me the …