"This book provides a state-of-the-art collection of opportunities and applicable practices of grid technology to sustain competitive advantage. Offering a collection of international research studies by leading experts, this book describes how grid technology can be applied to serve the purpose...

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This book presents a comprehensive collection of quality of service mechanisms for various access technologies and introduces existing and traditional approaches to traffic management for wireless technologies. With expert international contributions, this critical mass of knowledge covers both...

1. The application of virtual organization technology for eHealth / Ekaterina Kldiashvili -- 2. Grid technology / I. Aas -- 3. Health and health care grid services and delivery integrating eHealth and telemedicine / Thomas Clark -- 4. The Teams of Leaders (Tol) concept / Dag von Lubitz -- 5....

High-performance image reconstruction (HPIR) in three dimensions / Olivier Bockenbach ... [et al.] -- Compression of surface meshes / Frédéric Payan, Marc Antonini -- The role of self-similarity for computer aided detection based on mammogram analysis / Filipe Soares ... [et al.] -- Volumetric...

"This book offers new and established perspectives on architectures, services and the resulting impact of emerging computing technologies, including investigation of practical and theoretical issues in the related fields of grid, cloud, and high performance computing"--Provided by publisher.

"This book offers over 400 accounts from a wide range of specific research efforts on methodologies, tools, and architectures for complex distributed systems that address the practical issues of performance guarantees, timed execution, real-time management of resources, synchronized...

1. Harnessing the cloud for mobile social networking applications / Juwel Rana ... [et al.] -- 2. Balanced job scheduling based on ant algorithm for grid network / Nikolaos Preve -- 3. Evaluating heuristics for scheduling dependent jobs in grid computing environments / Geoffrey Falzon and...

"Distributed computing, through the power of grids or clouds, has allowed software and hardware developers to achieve high performance computing through cutting-edge technologies that are constantly changing. Grid and Cloud Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications presents a...

"This book offers insights into current and future communication technologies for a converged Internet that promises soon to be dominated by multimedia applications, at least in terms of bandwidth consumption"--Provided by publisher.