"Recent Progress in Parallel and Distributed Computing" ed by Wen-Jyi Hwang

This volume is dedicated to parallel and distributed computing - one of the most active areas of research in recent years. The techniques involved have found significant applications in areas as diverse as engineering, management, natural sciences, and social sciences. This book reports state-of-the-art topics and advances in this emerging field.

Completely up-to-date, aspects it examines include the following:
1) Social networks;
2) Smart grids;
3) Graphic processing unit computation;
4) Distributed software development tools;
5) Analytic hierarchy process and the analytic network process


Contents
1 Introductory Chapter: The Newest Research in Parallel and Distributed Computing
2 Social Trust: Evaluating Node Influential Capability in Social Networks
3 A Distributed Computing Architecture for the Large-Scale Integration of Renewable Energy and Distributed Resources in Smart Grids
4 GPU Computing Taxonomy
5 Distributed Software Development Tools for Distributed Scientific Applications
6 DANP-Evaluation of AHP-DSS