Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 145

Volume 145, November 2020

Special issue on Blockchain-enabled Secure Communications in Smart Cities

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  Lin Liu, Wei-Tek Tsai, Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Dong Yang:
  Automatic blockchain whitepapers analysis via heterogeneous graph neural network. 1-12
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  Victor Garcia-Font:
  SocialBlock: An architecture for decentralized user-centric data management applications for communications in smart cities. 13-23

Special issue on Parallel Computing for Data Science

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  Kai Zhong, Xu Zhou, Liqian Zhou, ZhiBang Yang, Chubo Liu, Na Xiao:
  An efficient parallel direction-based clustering algorithm. 24-33
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  Giuliano Laccetti, Marco Lapegna, Valeria Mele, Diego Romano, Lukasz Szustak:
  Performance enhancement of a dynamic K-means algorithm through a parallel adaptive strategy on multicore CPUs. 34-41

Special issue on Enabling Technologies for Energy Cloud

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  Yaser Jararweh:
  Enabling efficient and secure energy cloud using edge computing and 5G. 42-49

Special issue on Blockchain-enabled Secure Communications in Smart Cities

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  Muneeb Ul Hassan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Jinjun Chen:
  Differential privacy in blockchain technology: A futuristic approach. 50-74

Regular Articles

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  Yisroel Mirsky, Tomer Golomb, Yuval Elovici:
  Lightweight collaborative anomaly detection for the IoT using blockchain. 75-97
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  Jinhwan Choi, Yu Gu, Jinoh Kim:
  Learning-based dynamic cache management in a cloud. 98-110
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  J. Rubén Titos Gil, Ricardo Fernández Pascual, Alberto Ros, Manuel E. Acacio:
  PfTouch: Concurrent page-fault handling for Intel restricted transactional memory. 111-123

Special issue on Enabling Technologies for Energy Cloud

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  Thomas Rose, Kashif Kifayat, Sohail Abbas, Muhammad Asim:
  A hybrid anomaly-based intrusion detection system to improve time complexity in the Internet of Energy environment. 124-139

Regular Articles

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  Meisam Abdollahi, Siamak Mohammadi:
  Vulnerability assessment of fault-tolerant optical network-on-chips. 140-159

Special issue on Blockchain-enabled Secure Communications in Smart Cities

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  Evangelos Pournaras:
  Proof of witness presence: Blockchain consensus for augmented democracy in smart cities. 160-175

Special issue on Selected papers from IPDPS’19

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  Pankaj Khanchandani, Roger Wattenhofer:
  Two Elementary Instructions make Compare-and-Swap. 176-187
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  Ahmad Abdelfattah, Stanimire Tomov, Jack J. Dongarra:
  Matrix multiplication on batches of small matrices in half and half-complex precisions. 188-201

Regular Articles

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  Daning Cheng, Shigang Li, Yunquan Zhang:
  WP-SGD: Weighted parallel SGD for distributed unbalanced-workload training system. 202-216