The Grid is an emerging platform to support on-demand "virtual organisations" for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving on a global scale. The application thr...
ions and concepts that let applications access and share resources and services across distributed, wide area networks, while providing common security semantics, distributed resou...
Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, St...
This chapter describes how astronomical imaging survey data have become a vital part of modern astronomy, how these data are archived and then served to the astronomical community...
The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project, supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative, aims at making scientific instruments and sensors remotely accessible by ...
Hao Yin, Donald F. McMullen, Mehmet A. Nacar, Marl...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...