Towards Next Generation Grids

Foreword.- Service Level Agreement and Quality of Service.- NextGRID Architectural Concepts.- Virtual Domain Sharing in e-Science Based on Usage Service Level Agreements.- Optimal Closest Policy with QoS and Bandwidth Constraints.- An Open Architecture for QoS Information in Business Grids.- Trust, Security and Virtual Organization.- Threat Analysis and Attacks on XtreemOS: a Grid-Enabled Operating System.- A Utility-Based Reputation Model for Service-Oriented Computing.- Virtual Organization Management in XtreemOS: An Overview.- Sealed Grid with Downloadable Services.- Programming with Software Components.- Interoperability of Grid Component Models: GCM and CCA Case Study.- A Component Framework for Application Web Services.- Towards Dynamic Adaptability Support for M-W Component Based Applications.- Communication and Networking.- Total Exchange Performance Prediction on Grid Environments.- Synthetic Coordinates for Disjoint Multipath Routing.- Atomic Commitment in Transactional DHTs.- Jobs, Information and Resources Management.- Information Quality Evaluation for Grid Information Services.- Grid Infrastructure Tools for Multi-Level Job Management.- AMon - A User-Friendly Job Monitoring for the Grid.- Co-Allocating Compute and Network Resources.- Programming Methodologies.- Adding Metadata to Support Reasoning about Grid Programs.- A Framework for Analysis of Legacy Code Migration to Grid Environment.- Code Transfer Tools for Grid Programming.- Workflow Management.- Towards a Light-Weight Workflow Engine in the ASKALON Grid Environment.- Supporting Workflow-Level PS Applications by the P-GRADE Grid Portal.- Applying Patterns for Porting Complex Workflows onto the Grid.- Data Management.- Real Time Classification Mechanism for the Causes of Data Loss.- Dependable Grid Services: A Case Study with OGSA-DAI.- Author Index.