With the fourth volume we continue to analyze challenges and opportunities for
doing business with information emphasizing development of the software from
different points of view. We cover also methods and techniques, as well as strategies
for the efficient software production toward business information processing and
management.
Explicitly, starting with the first chapter “Towards a Unified Requirements
Model for Distributed High Performance Computing”, the authors discuss the
conceptual model, functional scope, and research agenda for creating and validating
a Distributed High-Performance Computing (DHPC) software development system
that fulfills defined requirements. A generic requirements model consisting of a
conceptual domain specification, unified domain vocabulary, and use-case-based
functional requirements is proposed. Vocabulary definition provides detailed clarifications of HPC fundamental component elements and their role in the system.
Moreover, the authors describe the security issues by providing transparency
principles for HPC. A research agenda that leads to the creation of a model-based
software development system dedicated to building Distributed HPC applications at
a high level of abstraction is also proposed.