—Grid system software is inherently complex, hard to build and maintain. In this paper, we propose a selfmanaging building block: Grid Unit, which facilitates constructing Grid s...
Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Ming Zou, Hui Wang, Shuan...
Location-based services are increasingly popular and it is a key challenge to efficiently support query processing. We present a novel design to process large numbers of location...
An emerging class of data-intensive applications involve the geographically dispersed extraction of complex scientific information from very large collections of measured or compu...
William E. Allcock, Joseph Bester, John Bresnahan,...
The use of web services as the basis for grid middleware has allowed scientists to wrap legacy applications as services in order to provide their capabilities to grid users. Howev...
Many methods for XML processing have been proposed in the last few years. One popular approach is to process XML documents by using existing programming languages. Another popular...