Special Issue: Euro‐Par 2010

International audienceThis special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience contains revised and extended versions of selected papers presented at the Euro-Par 2010 conference. Euro-Par--the European Conference on Parallel Computing--is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and the advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Euro-Par covers a wide spectrum of topics from algorithms and theory to software technology and hardware-related issues, with application areas ranging from scientific to mobile and cloud computing. The main audience of Euro-Par are the researchers in academic institutions, government laboratories, and industrial organizations. Euro-Par 2010, the 16th conference in the Euro-Par series, was organized by the Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council and was held at the Hotel Continental Terme on the Italian island of Ischia, in the Naples Bay