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  1. Article

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    Cloud computing for the architecture, engineering & construction sector: requirements, prototype & experience

    The Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) sector is a highly fragmented, data intensive, project based industry, involving a number of very different professions and organisations. Projects carried ou...

    Thomas H Beach, Omer F Rana, Yacine Rezgui in Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Syst… (2013)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Matchmaking of Mathematical Web Services

    Service discovery and matchmaking in a distributed environment has been an active research issue since at least the mid 1990s. Previous work on matchmaking has typically presented the problem and service descr...

    Simone A. Ludwig, William Naylor in Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (2006)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Supporting Program Indexing and Querying in Source Code Digital Libraries

    As a greater number of software developers make their source code available, there is a need to store such open-source applications in a library and facilitate searching over this digital library. To achieve t...

    Yuhanis Yusof, Omer F. Rana in Agent-Oriented Information Systems III (2006)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    High Performance Computing and Communications

    First International Conference, HPCC 2005, Sorrento, Italy, September 21-23, 2005. Proceedings

    Laurence T. Yang, Omer F. Rana in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2005)

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    Agent Based Computational Grids: Research Issues and Challenges

    As computer and computational scientists have to manage access to increasingly complex computing and data resources, this becomes a time consuming task. This is especially true for Computational Grids, which c...

    Omer F. Rana in Euro-Par 2005 Parallel Processing (2005)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Engineering Self-Organising Systems

    Nature-Inspired Approaches to Software Engineering

    Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2004)

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    Pattern/Operator Based Problem Solving Environments

    Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) provide a collection of tools for composition of scientific applications. Such environments are often based on graphical interfaces that enable components to be combined, an...

    Cecilia Gomes, Omer F. Rana, Jose C. Cunha in Euro-Par 2004 Parallel Processing (2004)

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    A Double Auction Economic Model for Grid Services

    The use of a service-based approach in Grid computing will lead to such services becoming valuable economic commodities. Current economics models on the Internet are concerned with the creation, sale and purch...

    Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana, W. Alex Gray, John Miles in Euro-Par 2004 Parallel Processing (2004)

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    Chapter

    Grid Performance and Resource Management Using Mobile Agents

    Mobile agents provide an important paradigm for supporting dynamic services in Computational Grids. We outline reasons why mobile agents are useful and how they can provide support for resource discovery and p...

    Beniamino Di Martino, Omer F. Rana in Performance Analysis and Grid Computing (2004)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Self-Organisation: Paradigms and Applications

    A self-organising system functions without central control, and through contextual local interactions. Components achieve a simple task individually, but a complex collective behaviour emerges from their mutua...

    Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Noria Foukia in Engineering Self-Organising Systems (2004)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems

    International Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems Barcelona, Spain, June 3–7, 2000 Revised Papers

    Tom Wagner, Omer F. Rana in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2001)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A Modelling Approach for Agent Based Systems Design

    A modelling approach based on the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is proposed as a first stage in develo** agent based systems. The SSMapproach enables a better conceptualisation of the system being developed...

    Omer F. Rana in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (2001)

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    Metacomputing and Grid Computing

    The growing number of computers accessible through a network, such as the Internet, has meant that these computers can be collectively employed to solve complex problems. Since the networks that connect such m...

    Alexander Reinefeld, Omer F. Rana, Jarek Nabrzyski in Euro-Par 2001 Parallel Processing (2001)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Data Management for Grid Environments

    An overview of research and development challenges for managing data in Grid environments is provided. We relate issues in data management at various levels of abstraction, from resources storing data sets, to...

    Heinz Stockinger, Omer F. Rana, Reagan Moore in High-Performance Computing and Networking (2001)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Infrastructure Issues and Themes for Scalable Multi-agent Systems

    Various toolkits have been developed in the research community for constructing multi-agent systems. These toolkits differ in the types of programming languages they support, particular agent services they can...

    Omer F. Rana, Tom Wagner in Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Sys… (2001)