Table of Contents

Desktop Grids.- Enabling Java applications for BOINC with DC-API.- Bridging the Data Management Gap Between Service and Desktop Grids.- Utilizing the EGEE Infrastructure for Desktop Grids.- Integrating Condor Desktop Clusters with Grid.- Prediction of the Jobs Execution on the Community Grid with Added Network Latency.- Grid Applications.- The Porting of a Medical Grid Application from Globus 4 to the gLite Middleware.- Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change Data Grid.- Towards a GRID-Based Digital Library Management System.- Grid Resource Management and Scheduling.- Fair Execution Time Estimation Scheduling in Computational Grids.- Multiprocessor Task Scheduling using a new Prioritizing Genetic Algorithm based on number of Task Children.- A Framework for Fair and Reliable Resource Sharing in Distributed Systems.- An Agent Based Architecture for DAG Scheduling.- Grid Programming Environments.- Workflows in a secure environment.- High-level User Interface for Accessing Database Resources on the Grid.- Miscellaneous Grid-related Issues.- A supporting infrastructure for evaluating QoS-specific activities in SOA-based Grids.- Checkpointing of Parallel Applications in a Grid Environment.- The Grid Data Source Engine Batch Query System.- Reputation-Policy Trust Model for Grid Resource Selection.

Reviews

From the reviews: "This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems DAPSYS 2008, with a focus on grid computing. … The papers can be independently read and no prerequisites are required. … The results are nicely illustrated with graphs and detailed descriptions. … The papers in the book are very well balanced, with the right amount of mathematical models, experimental analysis, and real-world applications. The book can be used as a reference for academics and industry researchers." (Naga Narayanaswamy, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2009)