Instruments and sensors and their accompanying actuators are essential to the conduct of
scientific research. In many cases they provide observations in electronic format and can be …

Advances in computational resources, the concept of the Grid and the development of
middleware and applications to build and support the Grid will give Grid users the power to …

Here the authors present a Grid-aware middleware system, called GridPACS, that enables
management and analysis of images in a massive scale, leveraging distributed software …

Data Grids allow for seeing heterogeneous, distributed, and dynamic informational
resources as if they were a uniform, stable, secure, and reliable database. According to this …

February 2002 as a collaboration between various UK academic institutions and industrial
partners. The project is funded and motivated by the UK e-Science community, whose …

A key challenge in supporting data-driven scientific applications is the storage and
management of input and output data in a distributed environment. We describe a …

Data services for the grid have focussed so far primarily on virtualising access to distributed
databases, and encapsulating file location. However, orchestration of services requires …

Knowledge discovery in data sources available on computational grids is a challenging
research and development issue. Several grid research activities addressing some facets of …

Data streams are a prevalent and growing source of timely data. As streams become more
prevalent, richer interrogation of the contents of the streams is required. Value of the content …

OGSA-DQP is a distributed query processor exposed to users as an OGSA-compliant Grid
service. This service supports the compilation and evaluation of queries that combine data …