Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support: Advancing Effective Virtual Organizations
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Editor:
Dr Nik BESSIS, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Foreword by:
Prof. Mark BAKER, Reading University, UK
Editorial Advisory Board:
Prof. Tatiana BOUZDINE-CHAMEEVA, Bordeaux Business School, France
Dr Maozhen LI, Brunel University, UK
Prof. Wen-Yang LIN, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Dr Iain PHILLIPS, Loughborough University, UK
Prof. Antonio PULIAFITO, University of Messina, Italy
Dr Alain ROY, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Prof. Richard O. SINNOTT, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr Yong YUE, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Table of Contents:
Section I
Grid Technology for Collaborative Decision Management and Support
Chapter I
Building Service-Oriented Grid Applications /
Enjie Liu, Xia Zhao, and Gordon Clapworthy
University of Bedfordshire, UK
Chapter II
Sustainable and Interoperable e-Infrastructures for Research and Business /
Giuseppe Andronico (1), Roberto Barbera (2,1), Marco Fargetta (1), Emidio Giorgio (3), Salvatore Marco Pappalardo (1), and Diego Scardaci (3)
1 Consorzio COMETA, Italy
2 University of Catania, Italy
3 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
Chapter III
Scenarios of Next Generation Grid Applications in Collaborative Environments:
A Business-Technical Analysis / Vassiliki Andronikou, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Magdalini Kardara, Dimitrios Halkos, and Theodora Varvarigou
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Chapter IV
Semantics-Based Process Support for Grid Applications /
Gayathri Nadarajan, Areti Manataki, and Yun-Heh Chen-Burger
University of Edinburgh, UK
Chapter V
Placement and Scheduling over Grid Warehouses /
Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costa and Pedro Furtado
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Chapter VI
Leveraging Simulation Practice in Industry through use of Desktop Grid Middleware /
Navonil Mustafee (1) and Simon J. E. Taylor (2)
1 University of Warwick, UK
2 Brunel University, UK
Section II
Social Aspects in Grid Environments
Chapter VII
Trust, Virtual Teams and Grid Technology /
Genoveffa Giambona (1), Nicholas L. J. Silburn (2), and David W. Birchall (2)
1 University of Reading, UK
2 Henley Business School, UK
Chapter VIII
The Socio-Technical Virtual Organisation /
Rob Smith and Rob Wilson
Newcastle University, UK
Chapter IX
Modelling Trust–Control Dynamics for Grid-based Communities: A Shared Psychological Ownership Perspective / Marina Burakova-Lorgnier
Université de Montesquieu Bordeaux 4, France
Section III
Grid Services for Advancing Virtual Organizations
Chapter X
Small World Architecture for Building Effective Virtual Organisations /
Lu Liu (1) and Nick Antonopoulos (2)
1 University of Leeds, UK
2 University of Surrey, UK
Chapter XI
Runtime Service Discovery for Grid Applications /
James Dooley, Andrea Zisman, and George Spanoudakis
City University, UK
Chapter XII
Model Architecture for a User Tailored Data Push Service in Data Grids /
Nik Bessis
University of Bedfordshire, UK
Chapter XIII
Using Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Emergency Response Decision Making / Eleana Asimakopoulou (1), Chimay J. Anumba (2), and Dino Bouchlaghem (1)
1 Loughborough University, UK
2 Pennsylvania State University, USA
Chapter XIV
Unified Data Access/Query over Integrated Data-views for Decision Making in Geographic Information Systems / Ahmet Sayar (1, 2), Geoffrey C. Fox (1, 2, 3), and Marlon E. Pierce (1)
1 Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, USA
2 Computer Science Department, School of Informatics, Indiana University, USA
3 Physics Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, USA
The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the IGI Publishing (Idea Group Publishing), Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing, Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints in 2009.
