The concept of roles has been prevalent in the area of Information Security for more than 15
years already. It promises simplified and flexible user management, reduced administrative …

The operational principles, components, and organization of a Grid-computing infrastructure
called In-VIGO (standing for In Virtual Information Grid Organizations) are described. In …

An approach is provided that receives a first role selection from a client device. Each of the
roles includes various user accounts provisioned to access various software applications …

Both cloud and grid are computing paradigms that manage large sets of distributed
resources, and the scientific community would benefit from their convergence. This paper …

This paper presents a data management solution which allows fast virtual machine (VM)
instantiation and efficient run-time execution to support VMs as execution environments in …

Virtual Organization Clusters (VOCs) are a novel mechanism for overlaying dedicated
private cluster systems on existing grid infrastructures. VOCs provide customized …

This paper presents a data management solution which allows fast Virtual Machine (VM)
instantiation and efficient run-time execution to support VMs as execution environments in …

Science gateways require the easy enabling of legacy scientific applications on computing
Grids and the generation of user‐friendly interfaces that hide the complexity of the Grid from …

This paper presents novel service-based grid data management middleware that leverages
standards defined by WSRF specifications to create and manage dynamic grid file system …

The MMM (Multi-head, Multi-tail, Multi-client) browsing project is a continuing effort to bring
stronger graph semantics to the World Wide Web, thereby increasing the Web's usefulness …