Remote Instrumentation for eScience and Related Aspects, 2012

This book will focus on new Remote Instrumentation aspects related to middleware architecture, high-speed networking, wireless Grid for acquisition devices and sensor networks, QoS provisioning for real-time control, measurement instrumentation and methodology.  Moreover, it will provide knowledge about the automation of mechanisms oriented to accompanying processes that are usually performed by a human. Another important point of this book is focusing on the future trends concerning Remote Instrumentation systems development and actions related to standardization of remote instrumentation mechanisms.

Part I: Sensors' Infrastructure.- 1. Grid Computations Not on the Computing Element: The Instrument Element as an Interface to a Control System for On-line HTC Tasks.- 2. Performance Evaluation of the of the DORRI Instrument Element Data Transfer Capabilities.- 3. The Green Grid5000: Instrumenting a Grid with Energy Sensors.- 4. Porting a Seismic Network to the Grid.- 5. Integrating a Multisensor Mobile System in the Grid Infrastructure.- 6. Network Performance Monitoring for Remote Instrumentation Services - The DORII Platform Test Case.- Part II: Software Platforms.- 7. Sortism: A High-Level Simulator for the Evaluation of QoS Models on Grid.- 8. MRA3D: A New Algorithm for Resource Allocation in a Network-aware Grid.- 9. Large-scale Quantum Monte Carlo Electronic Structure Calculations on the EGEE Grid.- 10. Generating a Virtual Computational Grid by Graph Transformations.- 11. Performance Analysis Framework for MPI Application Support on the Remote Instrumentation Grid.- Part III: Grid Infrastructure.- 12. Interactive Grid Access with MPI Support Using Gridsolve on GLITE-Infrastructures.- 13. Enforcing Team Cooperation Using Rational Software Tools into Software Engineering Academic Projects (ETC).- 14. Defense in Depth Strategy - Best Practices of Securing Virtual Laboratories.- 15. File System and Access Technologies for the Large Scale Data Facility.- 16. Policy Driven Data Management in PL-grid Virtual Organizations.- 17. DAME: A Distributed Data Mining and Exploration Framework within the Virtual Observatory.- 18. New Teaching Technologies in Environmental Science - Interactive Teaching with KIWI Remote Instrumentation Platform.- 19. An Agent Service Grid for Supporting Open and Distance Learning.- 20. Laboratories and Complex Systems.

Franco Davoli received the "laurea" degree in Electronic Engineering in 1975 from the University of Genoa, Italy. Since 1990 he has been Full Professor of Telecommunication Networks at the University of Genoa, where he is with the Department of Communications, Computer and Systems Science (DIST). From 1989 to 1991 and from 1993 to 1996 he was also with the University of Parma, Italy. His current research interests are in bandwidth allocation, admission control and routing in multiservice networks, wireless mobile and satellite networks and multimedia communications and services. He has co-authored over 250 scientific publications in international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the following international journals: International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), Studies in Informatics and Control, Simulation – Transactions of the SCS. He was a guest co-editor of two Special Issues of the European Transactions on Telecommunications and of a Special Issue of the International Journal of Communication Systems. In 2004, he was the recipient of an Erskine Fellowship from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, as Visiting Professor. He has been Principal Investigator in a large number of projects and has served in several positions in the Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT). He was the Head of the CNIT National Laboratory for Multimedia Communications in Naples in the years 2004-2005, and Vice-President of the CNIT Management Board for the term 2005-2007; he coordinates the participation of the Consortium in the SatNEx European Network of Excellence and in the European project DORII, where he is a member of the Steering Group. Still with CNIT, he participated in European projects GRIDCC and RINGrid. Prof. Davoli was Program Co-Chair of TIWDC 2005 and General Co-Chair of the international Workshops INGRID 2007, INGRID 2008, and INGRID 2009, and he is co-editor of t