Grid technology for maximizing collaborative decision management and support advancing effective virtual organizations /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Bessis, Nik, 1967-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Information technology > Management.; Computational grids (Computer systems); Shared virtual environments.; Building service-oriented grid applications; Control dynamics; Maximizing collaborative emergency response; Placement and scheduling over grid warehouses; Scenarios of next generation grid applications; Semantics-based process support; Socio-technical virtual organization; Sustainable and interoperable e-infrastructures; Trust, virtual teams, and grid technology
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"This book provides a state-of-the-art collection of opportunities and applicable practices of grid technology to sustain competitive advantage. Offering a collection of international research studies by leading experts, this book describes how grid technology can be applied to serve the purpo...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Building service-oriented grid applications / Enjie Liu, Xia Zhao, Gordon Clapworthy
• 2. Sustainable and interoperable e-infrastructures for research and business / Giuseppe Andronico ... [et al.]
• 3. Scenarios of next generation grid applications in collaborative environments : a business-technical analysis / Vassilikil Andronikou ... [et al.]
• 4. Semantics-based process support for grid applications / Gayathri Nadarajan, Areti Manataki, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger
• 5. Placement and scheduling over grid warehouses / Rogério de Carvalho Costal, Pedro Furtado
• 6. Leveraging simulation practice in industry through use of desktop grid middleware / Navonil Mustafee, Simon Taylor
• 7. Trust, virtual teams, and grid technology / Genoveffa Giambona, Nicholas Silburn, David Birchall
• 8. The socio-technical virtual organisation / Rob Smith, Rob Wilson
• 9. Modelling trust control dynamics for grid-based communities / Marina Burakova-Lorgnier
• 10. Small world architecture for building effective virtual organisations / Lu Liu, Nick Antonopoulos
• 11. Runtime service discovery for grid applications / James Dooley, Andrea Zisman, George Spanoudakis
• 12. Model architecture for a user tailored data push service in data grids / Nik Bessis
• 13. Using grid technology for maximizing collaborative emergency response decision making / Eleana Asimakopoulou ... [et al.]
• 14. Unified data access/query over integrated data-views for decision making in geographic information systems / Ahmet Sayar, Geoffrey Fox, Marlon Pierce.