SCALABLE COMPUTING: PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE - Volume 15, Issue 3 (2014) Scientific International Journal for Parallel and Distributed Computing ISSN 1895-1767 www.scpe.org SCPE is an electronic journal. It provides immediate open access to its content following the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents Full texts available at http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/issue/view/122 TABLE OF CONTENTS * Introduction to the Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents - Costin Badica, Mirjana Ivanovic * A system supporting the evaluation of the operational effectiveness of naval tasks based on agent simulation - Davide Anghinolfi, Alberto Capogrosso, Massimo Paolucci, Perra Francesco * Formal modelling and simulation of a multi-agent nano-robotic drug delivery system - Marina Ntika, Petros Kefalas, Ioanna Stamatopoulou * ABVE-construct: an agent-based virtual entreprise model for civil engineering - Mihaela Oprea * Portability in clouds: approaches and research opportunities - Dana Petcu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos * Fariness of task scheduling in high performance computing environments - Art Sedighi, Yuefan Deng, Peng Zhang