Grid applications must increasingly self-adapt dynamically to changing environments. In most cases, adaptation has been implemented in an ad hoc fashion, on a perapplication basis...
Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley R. Schmerl,...
A `second generation' approach to the provision of Grid middleware is now emerging which is built on service-oriented architecture and web services standards and technologies....
Paul Grace, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Lauren...
Accurate failure prediction in Grids is critical for reasoning about QoS guarantees such as job completion time and availability. Statistical methods can be used but they suffer f...
The task management is a key point in grid applications and can highly influence their efficiency. There are many solutions that we can classify according to their centralizatio...
The Information Power Grid (IPG) concept developed by NASA is aimed to provide a metacomputing platform for large-scale distributed computations, by hiding the intricacies of a hig...