As the adoption of grid technology moves from science to industry, new requirements arise. In todays grid middlewares, the notion of paying for a job is a secondary requirement. In...
Mathias Dalheimer, Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Peter Mer...
The increasing number of infrastructure services requires the existence of mechanisms to discover and select services and resources, called service broker, based on customer requir...
The growing computational power requirements of grand challenge applications has promoted the need for linking highperformance computational resources distributed across multiple ...
Resource sharing within grid collaborations usually implies specific sharing mechanisms at participating sites. Challenging policy issues can arise in such scenarios that integrate...
The development of the World Wide Web has changed the way we think about information. Information on the web is distributed, updates are made asynchronously and resources come onli...