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: A governed service oriented architecture (SOA) and infrastructure is the underlying foundation to expose, compose and consume services and processes with the goal of a complete and seamless support for different process types spanning different technologies and business areas. Microsoft provides a p...

Abstract: A main focuses of the XtreemOS project is the feasibility of peer-to-peer grid systems. Those systems are foremost characterized by two particularities: the kind of participating machines: mainly personal computers; and the high degree of churn that emerges due to machines constantly joining and lea...

Abstract: The objective of this practical, hands-on tutorial is to give an overview of the ProActive Parallel Suite envirnoment and grapgical tools, together with the GCM reference Open Source implementation.
Key Concepts & Terminology of ProActive, an open source java middleware, are main principles of ...

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...