Resource location or discovery is a key issue for Grid systems in which applications are
composed of hardware and software resources that need to be located. Classical …

Biobanks 1 are well-organized repositories of biological material. They have become the
fundamental resource for advancing medical research and constitute a major component of …

Grid, a form of parallel and distributed computing, allows the sharing of data and
computational resources among its users from various geographical locations. The grid …

Sažetak Cloud and P2P computing allows the sharing of resources among its users from
diverse geographical locations. The resources are heterogeneous in nature and possess …

Centralized or hierarchical administration of the classical grid resource discovery
approaches is unable to efficiently manage the highly dynamic large-scale grid …

Resource Discovery (RD) is one of the key issues in successful Grid systems. Yet, new
methodologies for RD are constantly researched owing to the dynamicity, heterogeneity and …

Grid computing generally involves the aggregation of geographically distributed resources
in the context of a particular application. As such resources can exist within different …

One of the most significant discussions about service-oriented architectures concerns the
creation of new complex services through the composition, under Quality of Service (QoS) …

One of the key success factors enabling the deployment of large scale grid systems is the
existence of efficient resource discovery mechanisms. Accordingly, the main issues to be …

In recent years, Grid systems and Peer to Peer networks are the most commonly-used
solutions to achieve the same goal: the sharing of resources and services in heterogeneous …