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Introduction to Large-Scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare

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Conventional healthcare services have seamlessly been integrated with the pervasive computing paradigm and consequently cost-effective and dependable smart healthcare services and systems have emerged [1].

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  1. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Assad Abbas

  2. North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA

    Samee U. Khan

  3. The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Albert Y. Zomaya

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University , Fargo, North Dakota, USA

    Samee U. Khan

  2. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Albert Y. Zomaya

  3. Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Assad Abbas

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Abbas, A., Khan, S.U., Zomaya, A.Y. (2017). Introduction to Large-Scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare. In: Khan, S., Zomaya, A., Abbas, A. (eds) Handbook of Large-Scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare. Scalable Computing and Communications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58280-1_1

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