Grid Computing: Achievements and Prospects

**Grid Computing: Achievements and Prospects,** the 9th edited volume of the CoreGRID series, includes selected papers from the CoreGRID Integration Workshop, held April 2008 in Heraklion-Crete, Greece. This event brings together representatives of the academic and industrial communities performing Grid research in Europe. The workshop was organized in the context of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence in order to provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of views on the latest developments in grid technology research. **Grid Computing: Achievements and Prospects** is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This volume is also suitable for graduate-level students in computer science. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Query Processing Over The Grid: The Role Of Workflow Management....Pages 1-12 From Orc Models To Distributed Grid Java Code....Pages 13-24 Using Cliques Of Nodes To Store Desktop Grid Checkpoints....Pages 25-36 EDGeS: The Common Boundary Between Service And Desktop Grids....Pages 37-48 P2P-based Job Assignment For Public Resource Computing....Pages 49-60 Estimating The Size Of Peer-To-Peer Networks Using Lambert's W Function....Pages 61-72 Comparative Evaluation Of The Robustness Of DAG Scheduling Heuristics....Pages 73-84 Prototype Implementation Of A Demand Driven Network Monitoring Architecture....Pages 85-96 A Scalable Architecture For Discovery And Planning In P2P Service Networks....Pages 97-108 Performance Visualization Of Grid Applications Based On OCM-G And Paraver....Pages 109-120 Analysing Orchestrations Using Risk Profiles And Angel-Daemon Games....Pages 121-132 Towards Coordinated Data Management For High-Performance Distributed Multimedia Content Analysis....Pages 133-145 Towards A Standards-Based Grid Scheduling Architecture....Pages 147-158 Dynamic Service-Based Integration Of Mobile Clusters In Grids....Pages 159-171 Comparison Of Multi-Criteria Scheduling Techniques....Pages 173-184 Comparison Of Centralized And Decentralized Scheduling Algorithms Using GSSIM Simulation Environment....Pages 185-196 A Data-Centric Security Analysis Of ICGrid....Pages 197-208 A Framework For Resource Availability Characterization And Online Prediction In The Grids....Pages 209-224 A Grid Environment For Real-Time Multiplayer Online Games....Pages 225-236 IANOS: An Intelligent Application Oriented Scheduling Framework For An HPCN Grid....Pages 237-248 On Consistency Of Data In Structured Overlay Networks....Pages 249-260 LooPo-HOC: A Grid Component with Embedded Loop Parallelization....Pages 261-273 Implementing Dynamic Querying Search in k-ary DHT-based Overlays....Pages 275-286 Back Matter....Pages 287-288 Grid Computing: Achievements and Prospects, an edited volume, includes selected papers from the CoreGRID Integration Workshop, held April 2008 in Heraklion-Crete, Greece. This event brings together representatives of the academic and industrial communities performing Grid research in Europe. The workshop was organized in the context of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence in order to provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of views on the latest developments in grid technology research. Grid Computing: Achievements and Prospects is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This volume is also suitable for graduate-level students in computer science