This article presents an extension of the Fractal component model targeted at programming
applications to be run on computing grids: the grid component model (GCM). First, to …

Current grid-aware applications are developed on existing software infrastructures, such as
Globus, by developers who are experts on grid software implementation. Although many …

The development of efficient Grid applications usually requires writing huge portions of code
directly at the level of abstraction provided by the underlying Grid middleware. In this work …

Deploying applications within a Grid infrastructure is an important aspect that has not yet
been fully addressed. This is particularly true when high-level abstractions, like objects or …

Abstract: The ASSIST environment provides a high-level programming toolkit for the grid.
ASSIST applications are described by means of a coordination language, which can …

This work, starting form the analitical description of a generic ASSIST program, derives some
general properties that characterize its steady state behaviour, allowing us to define …

Component-based grid applications have complex deployment models. Performance-
sensitive decisions should be taken by automatic tools. Such tools must match developer …

Grid technologies aim to harness the computational capabilities of widely distributed
collections of computers. Due to the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of the set of grid …

Application deployment is becoming an increasingly hard task, as complex, component-
based Grid applications have to be deployed on heterogeneous and dynamic Grids …

One of the most promising technical innovations in present-day computing is the invention of
grid technologies which harness the computational power of widely distributed collections of …