Until recently, application developers could often assume a target environment that was (to a
useful extent) homogeneous, reliable, secure, and centrally managed. Increasingly …

Increasingly, computing addresses collaboration, data sharing, and interaction modes that
involve distributed resources, resulting in an increased focus on the interconnection of …

Abstract e-Science encompasses computational science and adds the new dimension of the
routine sharing of distributed computational, data, instruments and specialist resources. This …

As states seek to improve home and community-based services for people with disabilities,
many are incorporating consumer-directed supportive services into their Medicaid programs …

We often encounter in distributed systems the need to model, access, and manage state.
This state may be, for example, data in a purchase order, service level agreements …

The Grid is an emerging platform to support on-demand" virtual organisations" for
coordinated resource sharing and problem solving on a global scale. The application thrust …

We illustrate the benefits of combining database systems and Grid technologies for data-
intensive applications. Using a cluster of SQL servers, we reimplemented an existing Grid …

Distributed data sources can be heterogeneous in their formats, schemas, quality, access
mechanisms, ownership, access policies, and capabilities. We need models and techniques …

Media distribution through application-layer overlay networks has received considerable
attention recently, owing to its flexibility and readily deployable nature. On-demand …

My Grid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to
perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help them to automate the management …