Future Generation Computer Systems

Editor-in-Chief Peter Sloot Fac. of Science, Informatics Inst., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands, Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Adam Belloum ISIS, Informatics Inst., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands, Associate Editor D. Abramson Monash University, Caulfield East, VIC, Australia, I. Altintas University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA, USA, Editors H.E. Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, A. Boukhanovsky St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 68, Russian Federation, M. Bubak AGH University of Science & Technology, Krakow, Poland, R. Buyya University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, W. Cai Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, C. Catlett Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA, C.Th.A.M. de Laat Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, J.J. Dongarra University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, USA, G.C. Fox Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, A.M. Goscinski Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia, L. Grandinetti Università della Calabria, Rende, CS, Italy, G.A. Gravvanis Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece, M.-T. Kechadi University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, C. Kesselman University of Southern California (USC)/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, USA, D.A. Kranzlmüller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München, Germany, C.A. Lee The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA, G Lee Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, S. Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-Ku, Japan, A. Omondi Yonsei University, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, South Korea, P. Roe Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, T. Solomonides University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, D. Talia Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy, Editors Emeriti H. Aiso Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, L.O. Hertzberger Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, F. Kuo General Wireless Communications Corp, Portola Valley, CA, USA, R.P. van de Riet Baarn, Netherlands