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ERCIM News 87

October 2011

Special theme Ambient Assisted Living

Guest editors Michael Pieper (Fraunhofer FIT), Margherita Antona (ICS-FORTH) and Ulises Cortés (UPC Barcelona)

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Design and the Digital Divide: Insights from 40 Years in Computer Support for Older and Disabled People

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Alan. F. Newell

In this monograph Alan Newell recounts the insights he has gained from his research and recommends a philosophy and design practices to reduce the Digital Divide between users of information technology and those who are excluded by the poor design of many current system.

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Grid Resource Management Toward Virtual and Services Compliant Grid Computing

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Frédéric Magoulès; Thi-Mai-Huong Nguyen; Lei Yu

Grid technology offers the potential for providing secure access to remote services, thereby promoting scientific collaborations in an unprecedented scale. Grid Resource Management: Toward Virtual and Services Compliant Grid Computing presents a comprehensive account of the architectural issues of grid technology, such as security, data management, logging, and aggregation of services, as well as related technologies.

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Introduction to Grid Computing

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Frédéric Magoulès; Jie Pan; Kiat-An Tan; Abhinit Kumar

Poised to follow in the footsteps of the Internet, grid computing is on the verge of becoming more robust and accessible to the public in the near future. Focusing on this novel, yet already powerful, technology, Introduction to Grid Computing explores state-of-the-art grid projects, core grid technologies, and applications of the grid.

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