Web services are often employed to create wide distributed evolvable applications from existing components that constitute a service-based software system. ServicesOriented Archit...
The Globus Toolkit makes it very easy and comfortable for grid users to develop and deploy grid service. As for the security mechanism, however, only static authentication and coar...
The Grid is the computing and data management infrastructure, which is transforming science, business, health and society. This paper deals with a challenging task addressing know...
Cloud computing [22] is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitat...
The centralised management of distributed computing infrastructures presents a number of considerable challenges, not least of which is the effective monitoring of physical resour...