Abstract: Significant deployments of Grid technology are found today in industry and scientific computing and our knowledge of the human genome map, the current levels of chip miniaturization or car safety would have been impossible without it. Grid technology silently changed our life. SOA - Service Oriente...

Abstract: Grid environments are widely accepted as a delivery platform for computing and data services. However, the Grids from different disciplines tend to form 'islands' that are rarely interoperable. This is partly due to the fact that encapsulation of functionality (which would foster component reuse) an...

Abstract: European Union FP7 funded project RESERVOIR (Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers) is launched in February 2008. It aims to develop breakthrough system and service technologies that will serve as the infrastructure for Cloud Computing. This goal will be achieved by creative couplin...

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...

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 ...