Advanced Scheduling Strategies and Grid Programming Environments

This special issue focuses on “advanced scheduling strategies and Grid programming environments”, and is based on selected papers from the 6 International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2008) and 2 Latin American Grid (LAGrid 2008) workshop . The authors were invited to provide extended versions of their original papers taking into account comments and suggestions raised during the peer review process and comments from the audience during the workshops. MGC 2008 relevant contributions have been provided by Kane and Dillaway, Abbes et al., Reis and Cerqueira, Finger et al. and Kuijl et al. From the LAGrid 2008 side relevant contribuitions as well have been provided by Martins et al., Costa and Cardozo, Mury et al. and Cáceres et al. These contributions focus mainly on: