Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...
—The scale, heterogeneity and dynamism of Grid applications and environments require Grid applications to be self-managing or autonomic. This paper presents the Accord autonomic ...
Hua Liu, Viraj Bhat, Manish Parashar, Scott Klasky
Within the realms of workflow management and grid computing, scheduling of distributed services is a central issue. Most schedulers balance time and cost to fit within a client...
The Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) defines a distributed system framework by integrating Grid and Web services technologies to facilitate resource sharing. In OGSI, Web ...
Kuo-Ming Chao, Muhammad Younas, Nathan Griffiths, ...