Abstract. The development and deployment of middleware and applications in a grid environment spread over many institutions is a complex challenge. The management of the developmen...
Resource management is a key concern for implementing effective Grid middleware and shielding application developers from low level details. Existing resource managers concentrat...
Grid workflow can be defined as the composition of grid application services which execute on heterogeneous and distributed resources in a well-defined order to accomplish a speci...
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...
History repeats itself. Since the invention of the programmable computer, numerous computer scientists keep dedicating their professional lives to the design of “the single, bes...