Advances in computing and networking technology, and an explosion in information sources has resulted in a growing number of distributed systems getting constructed out of resourc...
Future scalable, high throughput, and high performance applications are likely to execute on platforms constructed by clustering multiple autonomous distributed servers, with reso...
Resource sharing within grid collaborations usually implies specific sharing mechanisms at participating sites. Challenging policy issues can arise in such scenarios that integrate...
Challenging usage policy issues can arise within virtual organizations (VOs) that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions. Participants may wi...
The need for collaboration and information sharing has been recently growing dramatically with the convergence of outsourcing and offshoring, the increasing need to cut costs thro...