CONTENTS S p e c i a l s e c t i o n Terzo O., Mossucca L., Cucca M. and Notarpietro R. Data intensive scientific analysis with grid computing 219 Carpen-Amarie A., Costan A., Cai J., Antoniu G. and Bougé L. Bringing introspection into BlobSeer: Towards a self-adaptive distributed datamanagement system 229 Kołodziej J. and Xhafa F. Modern approaches to modeling user requirements on resource and task allocation in hierarchical computational grids 243 Hall-May M., Surridge M. and Nossal-Tüyeni R. Resilient critical infrastructure management with a service oriented architecture: A test case using airport collaborative decision making 259 González-Vélez H. and Kontagora M. Performance evaluation of MapReduce using full virtualisation on a departmental cloud 275 Di Modica G., Tomarchio O. and Vita L. Resource and service discovery in SOAs: A P2P oriented semantic approach 285 López-Fuentes F.A. P2P video streaming combining SVC and MDC 295 R e g u l a r s e c t i o n Karthikeyan S. and Balachandran K. Constrained controllability of nonlinear stochastic impulsive systems 307 El Mouatasim A., Ellaia R. and Souza de Cursi E. Random perturbation of the projected variable metric method for nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems with linear constraints 317 Hunek W.P. and Latawiec K.J. A study on new right/left inverses of nonsquare polynomial matrices 331 Clempner J.B. and Poznyak A.S. Convergence method, properties and computational complexity for Lyapunov games 349 Walas K. and Belter D. Supporting locomotive functions of a six-legged walking robot 363 Kaczorek T. Singular fractional linear systems and electrical circuits 379 Zydek D., Selvaraj H., Borowik G. and Łuba T. Energy characteristic of a processor allocator and a network-on-chip 385 Wiśniewski R., Barkalov A., Titarenko L. and Halang W.A. Design of microprogrammed controllers to be implemented in FPGAs 401