Grid Computing

Part I: E-Science, Applications, & Optimization Leveraging the Grid for e-Science: The Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure Alexey Cheptsov Supporting e-Science Applications on e-Infrastructure: Some Use Cases from Latin America Roberto Barbera, Francisco Brasileiro, Riccardo Bruno, Leandro Ciuffo, and Diego Scardaci GEMS: User Control for Cooperative Scientific Repositories Justin M. Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Santanu Chatterjee, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, and Jesus Izaguirre Performance Analysis and Optimization of Linear Workflows in Heterogeneous Network Environments Qishi Wu and Yi Gu Part II: Resource Management, Allocation, & Monitoring Resource Management and Service Deployment in Grids Christos Chrysoulas and Nicolas Sklavos Social Grid Agents Gabriele Pierantoni, Brian Coghlan, and Eamonn Kenny Monitoring and Controlling Grid Systems Ciprian Dobre Part III: Grid Services & Middleware Service Level Agreement for Job Control in Grid and High-Performance Computing Roland Kubert Composable Services Architectures for Grids Vassiliki Pouli, Yuri Demchenko, Constantinos Marinos, Diego R. Lopez, and Mary Grammatikou Phoenix: Employing Smart Logic to a New Generation of Semantically Driven Information SystemsAggelos Liapis, Nasos Michas, and Nikitas Tsopelas Part IV: Grid Computing & Scientific Problems State-of-art with PhyloGrid: Grid Computing Phylogenetic Studies on the EELA-2 Project Infrastructure Raul Isea, Esther Montes, Antonio Juan Rubio-Montero, and Rafael Mayo The Usage of the Grid in the Simulation of the Comet Oort-Cloud Formation Giuseppe Leto, Marian Jakubik, Lubos Neslusan, and Piotr A. Dybczynski