Until recently, application developers could often assume a target environment that was (to a
useful extent) homogeneous, reliable, secure, and centrally managed. Increasingly …

Collaborative networks manifest in a large variety of forms, including virtual organizations,
virtual enterprises, dynamic supply chains, professional virtual communities, collaborative …

This paper presents an overview of the current status of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular
Data Centre (VAMDC) e-infrastructure, including the current status of the VAMDC-connected …

A large portfolio of modeling tools and theories, developed in different disciplines, have a
good applicability potential in collaborative networks. A brief survey of those promising …

Abstract e-Science encompasses computational science and adds the new dimension of the
routine sharing of distributed computational, data, instruments and specialist resources. This …

Initially, Grid technologies were principally associated with supercomputer centres and large‐
scale scientific applications in physics and astronomy. They are now increasingly seen as …

Ambient intelligence (AI) refers to a develo** technology that will increasingly make our
everyday environment sensitive and responsive to our presence. The AI vision requires …

Scientific research and development has always involved large numbers of people, with
different types and levels of expertise, working in a variety of roles, both separately and …

Grid computing offers significant enhancements to our capabilities for computation,
information processing, and collaboration, and has exciting ambitions in many fields of …

The last decade has seen a substantial change in the way we perceive and use computing
resources and services. A decade ago, it was normal to expect one's computing needs to be …