International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Dr. Fatos Xhafa
- ISSN online
- 1741-8488
- ISSN print
- 1741-847X
- 6 issues per year
- Clarivate Analytics 2022 JCI 0.22
- CiteScore 1.8 (2021)

IJGUC addresses grid and utility computing which represent fundamental paradigms for next-generation parallel and distributed computing systems, enabling distant collaboration, resource discovery/sharing, data-intensive applicative infrastructures and high-throughput environments to address on-demand large-scale scientific, engineering, and business problems. Grid and utility computing have significantly contributed to the advancement of cloud computing, e-science, high performance computing, virtual organisations and collaboration, scientific workflows, and service-oriented architectures. They exploit synergies with different areas such as peer-to-peer computing, semantic web, wireless/mobile technologies, and computational intelligence.
Topics covered include
- Grid, utility, cloud computing and applications
- Resource allocation, scheduling, service discovery, capacity management
- Middleware, monitoring, load balancing, workload management
- Performance evaluation, simulation/modelling, toolkits
- Security, trust, maintenance, socio-technical/management issues
- Fault tolerance, reliability, availability
- Knowledge, service-oriented, semantic grids and clouds
- Integrated grid, cloud, P2P, mobile/wireless architectures
- Green computing/IT, power-aware models/environments
- Grid economics, market economy, business oriented models
- Virtual organisations, collaborative computing
- Virtualization of hardware/software resources
- Utility models, solution architectures
- Resource modelling/simulation in utility computing
- Utility computing economics, pricing models
Objectives
The objectives of IJGUC are to establish an effective channel of communication between grid and utility computing researchers, engineers, and policy makers. It also aims to promote and coordinate developments in the field of grid and utility computing. The international dimension is emphasised in order to foster international collaboration in grid and utility computing to meet the need to broaden the applicability and scope of the current body of knowledge.
Readership
IJGUC provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers, working in the fields relevant to grid and utility computing, to disseminate information and to learn from each other|s work.
Contents
IJGUC publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Special Issues devoted to important topics in grid and utility computing will occasionally be published.
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- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Compendex [formerly Ei] (Elsevier)
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
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- ACM Digital Library
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- General OneFile (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- Pascal (INIST-CNRS)
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
IJGUC is listed in:
- National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR)
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Editor in Chief
- Xhafa, Fatos, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
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Managing Editor
- Kumar, Pardeep, Jaypee University of Information Technology, India
Associate Editors
- Angeloni, Silvia, University of Milano, Italy
- Bittencourt, Luiz Fernando, University of Campinas, Brazil
- Daş, Resul, Firat University, Turkey
- De Roure, David, University of Oxford, UK
- Katz, Daniel S., University of Illinois, USA
- Kryvinska, Natalia, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Editorial Board Members
- Amato, Flora, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
- Azevedo, Ana, Instituto Politecnico do Porto, Portugal
- Boonma, Pruet, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
- Caballé, Santi, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
- Castro, Márcio, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Catlett, Charlie, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Chen, Xiaofeng, Xidian University, China
- Cota, Manuel Pérez, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
- Da Rosa Righi, Rodrigo, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
- De Benedictis, Alessandra, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
- Diwakar, Manoj, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, India
- Endo, Patricia Takako, Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil
- Fedushko, Solomiia, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
- Hameurlain, Abdelkader, Paul Sabatier University, France
- Hassanien, Aboul Ella, Cairo University, Egypt
- Hussain, Omar, UNSW Canberra, Australia
- Jabbar, M.A., Vardhman Engineering College, India
- Kacani, Jolta, University of Tirana, Albania
- Keller, Rainer, University of Applied Science (HfT Stuttgart), Germany
- Khan, Zahoor Ali, Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates
- Kolodziej, Joanna, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
- Li, Kin Fun, University of Victoria, Canada
- Lokshina, Izabella, SUNY Oneonta, USA
- Lu, Rongxing, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Ma, Kun, University of Jinan, China
- Macedo, Douglas Dyllon Jeronimo de, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Martínez, Javier Panadero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Mehta, Shikha, Jaypee University of Information Technology, India
- Natwichai, Juggapong, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
- Nhu, Nguyen Gia, Duy Tan University, Vietnam
- Nussbaum, Lucas, Université de Lorraine, France
- Ortiz-Rodríguez, Fernando, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico
- Paruchuri, Vamsi Krishna, University of Central Arkansas, USA
- Patil, Malini M., J.S.S. Academy of Technical Education, Bengaluru, India
- Pelusi, Danilo, University of Teramo, Italy
- Poniszewska-Marańda, Aneta, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
- Portela, Filipe, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
- Prasad, Mukesh, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Rahayu, Wenny, La Trobe University, Australia
- Rodriguez-Jorge, Ricardo, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic
- Sakamoto, Shinji, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
- Samriya, Jitendra Kumar, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India
- Shakhovska, Natalya, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
- Shojafar, Mohammad, University of Surrey, UK
- Souri, Alireza, Haliç University, Turkey
- Steinbauer, Matthias, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Taniar, David, Monash University, Australia
- Tiwari, Sanju, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico
- Toral, Sergio, University of Seville, Spain
- Trinh, Tuan Anh, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Vazquez-Poletti, Jose Luis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Wang, Baocang, Xidian University, China
- Yu, Yong, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
- Zhang, Mingwu, Hubei University of Technology, China
- Zomaya, Albert, University of Sydney, Australia
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Journal news
A life-long educational lifeline
24 March, 2023
Writing in the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, a team from Spain discusses the current need for flexible, efficient, universal, and lifelong education especially given the rapid evolution of information and communications technologies. Jordi Conesa, Montserrat Garcia-Alsina, Josep-Maria Batalla-Busquets, Beni Gómez-Zúñiga, María J. Martínez-Argüelles, Tona Monjo, and Enric Mor Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona and María Del Carmen Cruz Gil Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, point out that lifelong learning needs to be integrated fully into society, but because it differs from regular learning in many ways, there are issues that must be addressed to allow this to happen, for the benefit of individuals and society as a whole [...]
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