Grid computing systems provide a vast amount of computing resources from multiple
administrative domains to reach a main objective. One of the most important challenges in …

Large-scale distributed computing environments provide a vast amount of heterogeneous
computing resources from different sources for resource sharing and distributed computing …

Abstract The Globus Toolkit Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS4) defines and
implements mechanisms for service and resource discovery and monitoring in distributed …

Grid computing has now become the de facto standard for distributed computing and
provides huge computing resources for high‐performance scientific and engineering …

Distributed virtual machines can help to build scalable, manageable, and efficient grid
infrastructures. The work proposed in this paper focuses on employing virtual machines for …

The Internet has witnessed a steady and widespread increase in available idle computing
cycles and computing resources in general. Such available cycles simultaneously allow and …

Abstract Concept hierarchies greatly help in the organization and reuse of information and
are widely used in a variety of information systems applications. In this paper, we describe a …

Abstract Information services play a crucial role in grid environments in that the state
information can be used to facilitate the discovery of resources and the services available to …

Information system technology continues to evolve over time. Various fields of science
including agriculture also utilize information system to improve quality and services in the …

The development of massively distributed applications with enormous demands for
computing power, memory, storage and bandwidth is now possible with the Grid. Despite …