This volume presents the accepted papers for the 4th International Conference onGridandCooperativeComputing(GCC2005), heldinBeijing, China, during November 30 - December 3, 2005.The conferenceseries of GCC aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research trends on the theory, method, and design of Grid and cooperative computing as well as their scienti?c, engineering and commercial applications. It has become a major annual event in this area. The First International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing...

- Cross the boundaries of disciplines.
- Develops a new methodology and approach to develop future interconnection environment
- Combines theory and practice
- The first book in this promising area

Classifying objects into categories at different granularity levels, establishing links between known objects, and discovering clues between known and unknown objects are essential for new-generation semantic data models. This book introduces the Resource Space Model (RSM), which effectively organizes and correctly manages resources by normalizing classification semantics.

This volume presents basic models of RSM and the Semantic Link Network (SLN), the relationship between the two, and an approach to integrating the two models and exploring their semantic-rich interconnection....