Understanding large Grid platform configurations and generating representative synthetic
configurations is critical for Grid computing research. This paper presents an analysis of …

With an increasing number of available resources in large-scale distributed environments, a
key challenge is resource selection. Fortunately, several middleware systems provide …

A Grid Information Service (GIS) stores information about the resources of a distributed
computing environment and answers questions about it. We are developing RGIS, a GIS …

A computational is a wide-area computing environment for cross-domain resource sharing
and service integration. Most clouds generally emphasize sharing resources and services …

An information service stores information about the resources and services within a
distributed computing environment and answers queries about it. This dissertation presents …

With an increasing number of available resources in large-scale distributed environments, a
key challenge is resource selection. First, we show why explicit resource selection is …