The next generation Grid will demand the Grid middleware to provide flexibility, transparency, and reliability. This implies the appliance of service level agreements to guarantee...
Federated identity management is often viewed by corporations as a solution to support secure online commerce by synthesising complex and fragmented user information into a single...
Christine Satchell, Graeme G. Shanks, Steve Howard...
—In the majority of today’s IT organizations, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are an important means for underpinning IT service provisioning by clearly defined Quality of Ser...
This paper proposes a novel approach for managing IP-based services and applications, reflecting the authors’ experience with the IBM Global Network. It describes how one can e...
Resource sharing within grid collaborations usually implies specific sharing mechanisms at participating sites. Challenging policy issues can arise in such scenarios that integrate...