The Grid's vision, of sharing diverse resources in a flexible, coordinated and secure manner
through dynamic formation and disbanding of virtual communities, strongly depends on …

The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open
distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically …

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

Colloidal gold spheres of radius 10 nm are reported to move forward in water, under the
influence of radiation pressure forces, due to the evanescent field at the surface of an optical …

Over the past few years, researchers have been treated to two visions of the Internet's future.
One is the Semantic Web, the next generation of World Wide Web technology. The second is …

The semantic Web services have been emerging to enable dynamic service discovery,
composition, invocation, execution monitoring. On the other hand, software agents are …

Present chemical data storage methodologies place many restrictions on the use of the
stored data. The absence of sufficient high-quality metadata prevents intelligent computer …

The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces
for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge …

Aiming at networks with a large number of firewall rules, in order to reduce the number of
rules and rule filtering times while firewall's performance does not change, a firewall policy …

Abstract The CombeChem e-Science project has demonstrated the advantages of using
Semantic Web technology, in particular RDF and triplestores, to describe and link diverse …