"This book provides insight into the current trends and emerging issues by investigating grid and cloud evolution, workflow management, and the impact new computing systems have on the education fields as well as the industries"--Provided by publisher.

In a global computing environment in order for entities to collaborate, they should be able to make autonomous access control decisions with partial information about their potential collaborators. The SECURE project addresses this requirement by using trust as the mechanism for managing risks...

Unternehmen erstellen komplexe Güter und Dienstleistungen im Allgemeinen nicht alleine, sondern arbeiten mit anderen Unternehmen zusammen. Dabei stimmen sie sich vielfach durch nicht-marktliche Koordinationsformen wie inner- und zwischenbetriebliche Kooperationen ab. Gleichzeitig steigt die...

A capacious and reliable electric transmission grid is vital to public health and safety, the economy, and national security. The recent shift from local generation and use of electric power to regional and national markets in electric production requires substantially augmented transmission...