Effective integration of heterogeneous data sources has been studied as the most pressing challenge in various fields; such as, high energy physics, astronomy, and life sciences. ...
In the business Grid environment, the business relationship between a customer and a service provider should be clearly defined. The responsibility of each partner can be stated in...
OGSA-DQP is a Distributed Query Processing system for the Grid. It uses the OGSA-DAI framework for querying individual databases and adds on top of it an infrastructure to perform ...
With the advent of grid technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to utilize distributed grid resources. The core grid services provid...
Karen M. McCann, Maurice Yarrow, Adrian De Vivo, P...
This paper advocates the need for a mechanism that will allow the evaluation of the provided quality of service (QoS) by a service provider to a service customer in B2B service pr...