SERVOGrid Complexity Computational Environments (CCE) Integrated Performance Analysis
GRID '05 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
MAPFS-DAI, an extension of OGSA-DAI based on a parallel file system
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special section: Data mining in grid computing environments
JGRIM: An approach for easy gridification of applications
Future Generation Computer Systems
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Introducing grid computing to a masters course: the design rationale and practice
EE'08 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS/IASME international conference on Engineering education
An overview of S-OGSA: A Reference Semantic Grid Architecture
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
On the evaluation of gridification effort and runtime aspects of JGRIM applications
Future Generation Computer Systems
DockFlow: Achieving interoperability of protein docking tools across heterogeneous Grid middleware
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Execution and composition of e-science applications using the WS-resource construct
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Journal of Web Engineering
Meanings and boundaries of scientific software sharing
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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The U.K. e-Science Programme is a £250 million, five-year initiative which has funded over 100 projects. These application-led projects are underpinned by an emerging set of core middleware services that allow the coordinated, collaborative use of distributed resources. This set of middleware services runs on top of the research network and beneath the applications we call the ‘Grid’. Grid middleware is currently in transition from pre-Web Service versions to a new version based on Web Services. Unfortunately, only a very basic set of Web Services embodied in the Web Services Interoperability proposal, WS-I, are agreed by most IT companies. IBM and others have submitted proposals for Web Services for Grids—the Web Services ResourceFramework and Web Services Notification specifications—to the OASIS organization for standardization. This process could take up to 12 months from March 2004 and the specifications are subject to debate and potentially significant changes. Since several significant U.K. e-Science projects come to an end before the end of this process, the U.K. needs to develop a strategy that will protect the U.K.'s investment in Grid middleware by informing the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute's (OMII) roadmap and U.K. middleware repository in Southampton. This paper sets out an evolutionary roadmap that will allow us to capture generic middleware components from projects in a form that will facilitate migration or interoperability with the emerging Grid Web Services standards and with ongoing OGSA developments. In this paper we therefore define a set of Web Services specifications, which we call ‘WS-I+’ to reflect the fact that this is a larger set than currently accepted by WS-I, that we believe will enable us to achieve the twin goals of capturing these components and facilitating migration to future standards. We believe that the extra Web Services specifications we have included in WS-I+ are both helpful in building e-Science Grids and likely to be widely accepted. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.