"This book presents research on building network of excellence by effectively and efficiently managing ICT-related resources using Grid technology"--Provided by publisher.
Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgment |
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Section I Grid Technology for Collaborative Decision Management and Support |
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Building Service-Oriented Grid Applications |
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Sustainable and Interoperable E-Infrastructures for Research and Business |
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23 | (17) |
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Salvatore Marco Pappalardo |
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Scenarios of Next Generation Grid Applications in Collaborative Environments: A Business-Technical Analysis |
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40 | (21) |
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Semantics-Based Process Support for Grid Applications |
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61 | (22) |
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Placement and Scheduling over Grid Warehouses |
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83 | (22) |
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Rogerio Luis de Carvalho Costa |
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Leveraging Simulation Practice in Industry through Use of Desktop Grid Middleware |
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105 | (26) |
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Section II Social Aspects in Grid Environments |
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Trust, Virtual Teams, and Grid Technology |
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Genoveffa (Jeni) Giambona |
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The Socio-Technical Virtual Organisation |
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147 | (23) |
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Modelling Trust-Control Dynamics for Grid-Based Communities: A Shared Psychological Ownership Perspective |
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170 | (20) |
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Section III Grid Services for Advancing Virtual Organizations |
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Small World Architecture for Building Effective Virtual Organisations |
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190 | (22) |
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Runtime Service Discovery for Grid Applications |
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212 | (23) |
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Model Architecture for a User Tailored Data Push Service in Data Grids |
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235 | (21) |
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Using Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Emergency Response Decision Making |
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256 | (20) |
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Unified Data Access/Query over Integrated Data-Views for Decision Making in Geographic Information Systems |
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276 | (23) |
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Compilation of References |
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About the Contributors |
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Index |
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Nik Bessis is currently a senior lecturer and head of postgraduate taught courses, in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at University of Bedfordshire (UK). He obtained a BA from the TEI of Athens in 1991 and completed his PhD (2002) and MA (1995) at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His research interest is the development of distributed information systems for virtual organizations with a particular focus in next generation Grid technology; data integration and data push for the creative and other sectors.