One of the main issues in the development of future Grid and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networksystems is the effcient provisioning of services and resources to network clients. Thisshould be done by a scalable, dynamic, and adaptable allocation mechanism. The overallobjective of the CATNETS project is...

Considerable efforts have been made developing software architectures which allowclients to obtain service “on demand”. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) based onweb service technologies provides a fundamental concept for this purpose, and is oftenadopted in current Grid implementation...

One of the main issues in the development of future Grid and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networksystems is the efficient exploitation of services and resources available in the network.A scalable, dynamic, and adaptable allocation mechanism is essential so that quality ofservice requirements from network...

Grid computing has recently become an important paradigm for managing eomputationally demanding applications (composed of a collection of services). Providing dynamic discovery of services, and the determination of a service with the "best value" remains a complex problem in Grid computing. Such...

This document provides the initial report of the Simulation work package (Work Package 4,WP4) of the CATNETS project. It contains an analisys of the requirements for a simulation tool to be used in CATNETS and an evaluation of a number of grid and general purpose simulators with respect to the...

In this paper a metrics framework for evaluating different scenarios in the CATNETS project is defined. The aim is to use this framework to compare the catallactic scenario against the central auctioneer.