Grid computing enables the sharing of heterogeneous
resources among different administrative domains
promising unlimited computational and storage power
available on demand. However, Grid applications are
often developed in an ad-hoc manner with little or no
transferability across them. Grid applications not
only need to adapt to evolving standards but they
also need to adjust to a dynamic environment in which
resources can be added and removed on demand. This
book presents an approach that simplifies the
development of Grid applications and empowers
end-users to take full advantage of...