Grid technologies enable large-scale sharing of resources within formal or informal consortia
of individuals and/or institutions: what are sometimes called virtual organizations. In these …

Metacomputing systems are intended to support remote and/or concurrent use of
geographically distributed computational resources. Resource management in such systems is …

This document describes Web Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement), a Web
Services protocol for establishing agreement between two parties, such as between a service …

Grid computing is concerned with the sharing and coordinated use of diverse resources in
distributed "virtual organizations." The dynamic and multiinstitutional nature of these …

A fundamental problem in distributed computing is to map activities such as computation or
data transfer onto resources that meet requirements for performance, cost, security, or other …

The WS-Resource construct has been proposed as a means of expressing the relationship
between stateful resources and Web services. We introduce here the WS-Resource …

Applications designed to execute on "computational grids" frequently require the simultaneous
co-allocation of multiple resources in order to meet performance requirements. For …

The Web services architecture has been broadly accepted as a means of structuring
interactions among distributed software services. Further standardization is now required to …

In this paper we study a minimalist decentralized algorithm for resource allocation in a
simplified Grid-like environment. We consider a system consisting of large number of …

The Open Grid Services Infrastructure specification version 1.0 (OGSI), released in July
2003, defines a set of conventions and extensions on the use of Web Service Definition …