*Edited by Wen-Jyi Hwang*

Parallel and distributed computing has been one of the most active areas of research in recent years. The techniques involved have found significant applications in areas as diverse as engineering, management, natural sciences, and social sciences. This book reports state-of-the-art topics and advances in this emerging field. Completely up-todate, aspects it examines include the following: 1) Social networks; 2) Smart grids; 3) Graphic processing unit computation; 4) Distributed software development tools; 5) Analytic hierarchy process and the analytic network process

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Recent Progress in Parallel and Distributed Computing

Recent Progress in Parallel

and Distributed Computing

*Edited by Wen-Jyi Hwang*