Component-based models represent a dominant trend in the construction of wide-area network applications, making possible the integration of diverse functionality contained in modu...
Abstract-- The success of Web Services as a tool to decouple and distribute different processes is beyond any doubt. On the one hand, their distributed nature makes them perfect to...
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
Grid technologies and infrastructures facilitate distributed resource sharing and coordination in dynamic, heterogeneous, multi-institutional environments. A replica catalog is a ...
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...