Problem-Solving Environments


JOURNAL PAPERS
"High Performance Computing for Monte Carlo Radiotherapy Calculations"
P. Downes, G. Yaikhom, J. P. Giddy, D. W. Walker, E. Spezi, and D. G. Lewis
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol. 367, No. 1897, pages 2607-2617, June 2009
doi: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0028

"GECEM: A Portal-Based Grid Application for Computational Electromagnetics"
M. Lin and D. W. Walker
Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 24. No. 1, pages 66-72, 2008
doi: 10.1016/j.future.2007.02.003

"Engineering High Performance Legacy Codes as CORBA Components for Problem-Solving Environments"
M. Li, D. W. Walker, O. F. Rana, Y. Huang, P. T. Williams, and R. C. Ward
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 63, No. 11, pages 1152-1163, 2003
ISSN 0743-7315
doi: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2003.07.006

"Wrapping MPI-based Legacy Codes as Java/CORBA Components"
M. Li, O. F. Rana, and D. W. Walker, Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 18, No. 2, pages 213-223, October 2001.

"The Software Architecture of a Distributed Problem-Solving Environment"
D. W. Walker, M. Li, O. F. Rana, M. S. Shields, and Y. Huang, Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Vol. 12, No. 15, pages 1455-1480, December 2000.

"A Java/CORBA-Based Visual Program Composition Environment for PSEs"
M. S. Shields, O. F. Rana, D. W. Walker, M. Li, and D. Golby, Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Vol. 12, pages 687-704, 2000.

PAPERS IN PROCEEDINGS

"A Distributed Simulation Framework for Conformal Radiotherapy"
G. Yaikhom, J. P. Giddy, D. W. Walker, E. Spezi,, D. G. Lewis, and P. Downes
Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), held in Miami, USA, 14-18 April 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4244-1693-6
doi: 10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536471

"Lessons Learned from the GECEM Project"
D. W. Walker
Proceedings of the IFIP working conference on Grid-based Problem Solving Environments, pages 95-111, held in Prescott, Arizona, USA, 17-21 July 2006.
ISBN: 978-0-387-73658-7
doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-73659-4_6

"A Portlet Interface for Computational Electromagnetics on the Grid"
M. Lin and D. W. Walker
Proceedings of the 17th IMACS World Congress, held in Paris, France, 11-15 July 2005
ISBN 2-915913-02-1
Download: http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/David.W.Walker/papers/IMACS2005Final.pdf

"Grid-based Problem Solving Environment for GECEM"
M. Lin and D. W. Walker
Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, held 9-12 May 2005, in Cardiff, UK
ISBN 0-7803-9074-1
doi: 10.1109/CCGRID.2005.1558630

"A Portlet Service Model for GECEM"
M. Lin and D. W. Walker
Proceedings of the UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting 2004, pages 687-694, held in Nottingham, UK, 1-3 September 2004
Edited by S. J. Cox
ISBN 1-904425-21-6
Download: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2004/proceedings/papers/233.pdf

"PortalLab: A Web Services Oriented Toolkit for Semantic Grid Portals"
M. Li, P. van Santen, D.W.Walker, O.F.Rana, and M.A.Baker
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2003), pages 190-197, held in Tokyo, Japan, 12-15 May 2003
Published by IEEE Computer Society
ISBN 0-7695-1926-1
doi: 10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199368

"Collaborative Code Development Environment for Computational Electro-Magnetics"
M. S. Shields, O. F. Rana, D. W. Walker, and D. Golby, in The Architecture of Scientific Software, eds. R. F. Boisvert and P. T. P. Tang, pub. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Massachussets, USA, pages 119-141, 2001. ISBN 0-7923-7339-1. This book is the proceedings of the IFIP TC2/WG2.5 Working Conference on the Architecture of Scientific Software, held October 2-4, 2000, in Ottawa, Canada.

"Implementing Problem-Solving Environments for Computational Science"
O. F. Rana, M. Li, M. S. Shields, and D. W. Walker, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Parallel Computing (EuroPar 2000), held in Munich, Germany, August 29 - 1 September, 2000.

"A Wrapper Generator for Wrapping High Performance Legacy Codes as Java/CORBA Components"
M. Li, O. F. Rana, and M. S. Shields, and D. W. Walker, in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM SC2000 Conference, held in Dallas, TX, November 10-12, 2000.

"An XML-Based Component Model for Wrapping Legacy Codes as Java/CORBA Components"
M. Li, O. F. Rana, and D. W. Walker, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on High Performance Computing in the Asia-Pacific Region, held in Beijing, Peoples' Republic of China, May 14-17, 2000, pages 507-512. Published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7695-0589-2.

"Architecture of an Intelligent Resource Management System"
O. F. Rana., D. W. Walker, and Y. Huang, in Proceedings of the 18th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group. Published by Salford University, ISSN 1368-5708. Held in Manchester, December 15-16, 1999.

"CB-PSE: A Component-Based Problem Solving Environment"
M. Li, O. F. Rana, and D. W. Walker, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, published by the International Society of Computers and their Applications, held in Atlanta, USA, pages 7-10, November 1999.

"An XML Based Component Model for Generating Scientific Applications and Performing Large Scale Simulations in a Meta-Computing Environment"
O. F. Rana, M. Li, D. W. Walker, and M. S. Shields, in Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering. Erfurt, Germany, September 28-30, 1999. Only available on CD-ROM.

"Bringing Together Mobile Agents and Data Analysis in PSEs"
O. F. Rana and D. W. Walker, in the Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, published by CSREA Press, ed. Hamid R. Arabnia. Las Vegas, USA, June 28-July 1, 1999.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

"The Software Architecture of a Distributed Problem-Solving Environment"
D. W. Walker, M. Li, O. F. Rana, M. S. Shields, and Y. Huang, Technical Report TM/ORNL-1999/321, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN 37831, USA. February 2000.

PAPERS FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE

"Advanced Environments and Tools for High Performance Computing"
D. W. Walker. Report on the 1999 European Research Conference on Problem-Solving Environments. Available only online. June 1999.

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