Monitoring distributed applications executed on a computational Grid is challenging since they are executed on several heterogeneous nodes belonging to different administrative domains. An application monitoring service should provide users and administrators with useful and dependable data on the applications executed on the Grid. We present in this paper a grid application monitoring service ...

This paper examines how databases can be integrated into the Grid. Almost all early Grid applications are file-based, and so, to date, there has been relatively little effort applied to integrating databases into the Grid. However, if the Grid is to support a wider range of applications, both scientific and otherwise, then database integration into the Grid will become important. Therefore, thi...

The emerging of the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) andGT3 provides a solution to Network ManufacturingManufacturing Grid (MG). We apply GT3 to manufacturing by developing a MG Quality of Service (MG-QoS) management system. The main focus of this framework is to provide a means for the users to search for services based on QoS criteria in Manufacturing Grid, to provide QoS guarantees for ...

This paper describes the Grid-Service-in-a-Box(GSiB) system – a visual environment for both service providers and service clients who wish to deploy, manage, and use services in a Grid environment, without having to be experts in Grid and Web service technologies. GSiB provides a variety of easy-to-use graphical user interfaces for service providers to deploy, undeploy, update, compose, and mon...

The combination of mobile and Grid computing enables high performance Grid access through resource-limited mobile devices. Many challenges require to be addressed before vision of building the bridge between Grid and mobile computing field is realized. One of the essential challenges is that mobile devices need to locate and select appropriate Grid services in an automatic and flexible way. How...

Service-oriented computing, which offers more flexible means for application development, is gaining popularity. Service-oriented grid applications are constructed by selecting and composing appropriate services. They are one kind of promising applications in grid environments. However, the dynamism and autonomy of environments make the issues of dynamically adapting a service-oriented grid app...

The Semantic Grid aims at enhancing Grid architectures by knowledge engineering techniques. The service notion is central in this approach. Service-level agreements, called contracts, are formed to define the service usage conditions. Ontology technology can form the framework to capture semantical conditions for contracts. Often, applications of Grid services involve a combination of several s...

This paper presents infrastructure for Managing and Controlling Agents Grid (IMCAG). The goal of IMCAG is to realize the distributed service integration within Internet. Regarding providing service as the central task, IMCAG creates a transparent integration to make the easy use of every kind of service in heterogeneous, open and dynamic network environment. This paper expatiates IMCAG from thr...

Grid has emerged as a new paradigm for integration within dynamic virtual enterprises. Given a service-oriented Grid environment, more complex, value-added sophisticated services and applications can be built via service composition. In this paper, we discuss Grid services composition by leveraging Semantic Web services standards and technology, especially OWL-S. The characterization of service...

What is The Grid? This question has been asked by many people and has been answered by many more. On our way to the One Grid, it is currently only possible to distinguish between several Computational, Data and Service Grids. This paper introduces Venice, a lightweight Service Grid that allows for easy service deployment, easy maintenance and easy service usage. It contains management services,...