Abstract: This talk introduces the different concepts and technologies relevant to trust and security in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Service-Based Grids. We describe basic security concepts such as authentication, authorisation, secure communication, confidentiality and distributed trust, and sho...
Abstract: Distributed worldwide Grid infrastructures are nowadays ready to be used for scientific and business applications. The g-Eclipse framework enables the seamless and user friendly access to Grid and Cloud infrastructures by providing a set of standardized user interfaces and tools. g-Eclipse is built ...
Abstract: Component based programming models have been successfully used to program distributed architectures in the past, and they are currently being considered suitable models to be adopted in grid programming as well. The CoreGRID Programming model Institute introduced GCM (the Grid Component Model) ...
Abstract: Service Level Agreements between service providers and their customers are quite common today having been used for quite some time. Since a few years electronic Service Level Agreements started playing an increasing role for the management resources and services allowing defining a certain Quality o...
