Grid Services Engineering and Management

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Grid Services Engineering and Management, GSEM 2004, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2004. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on grid service architecture, grid service composition, service security, and grid service management.

Architecture. - Using Web Services Architecture in a Grid Infrastructure: An Early Implementation of Web Services Actors, Programming a Grid Application to Access Astronomical Databases. - A Scalable Entry-Level Architecture for Computational Grids Based on Web Services. - Enhancing Java Grid Computing Security with Resource Control. - Composition. - An Approach to Flexible Application Composition in a Diverse Software Landscape. - An Ontology-Based Framework for Semantic Grid Service Composition. - Towards a Metamodeling Based Method for Representing and Selecting Grid Services. - Security. - Towards a Flexible Trust Model for Grid Environments. - Decentralized, Adaptive Services: The AspectIX Approach for a Flexible and Secure Grid Environment. - A Specification for Security Services on Computational Grids. - Management. - Grid Service Management by Using Remote Maintenance Shell. - The Grid-Occam Project.