Future trends in distributed applications and problem-solving environments

As Grid computing technologies and infrastructures are being developed, suitable abstractions, methods, and tools will become necessary to enable application development, and software development of the components of Grid Computing Environments. Grid Computing will enable distributed applications with large numbers of involved components with dynamic interactions. This requires new approaches to understand and manage structure and behaviour, and the diversity of interactions among system components. This paper discusses emerging trends in distributed applications on large scale and dynamic Grid computing infrastructures. These trends allow to identify the need to develop suitable software models, methods and tools for Grid Computing Environments, in order to help specify, compose, and develop dynamic distributed large scale applications.