Grid Computing [electronic resource] : First European Across Grids Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, February 13-14, 2004. Revised Papers / edited by Francisco Fernández Rivera, Marian Bubak, Andrés Gómez Tato, Ramón Doallo.

Experiences on Grid Resource Selection Considering Resource Proximity -- Decentralized vs. Centralized Economic Coordination of Resource Allocation in Grids -- The EU-CrossGrid Approach for Grid Application Scheduling -- Job Scheduling and Resource Management Techniques in Economic Grid Environments -- VOMS, an Authorization System for Virtual Organizations -- A Grid Framework for Optimistic Resource Sharing -- Search Engines for the Grid: A Research Agenda -- Design and Implementation of a Grid-Enabled Component Container forCORBA Lightweight Components -- First Prototype of the CrossGrid Testbed -- An Advanced Security Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Relational Grid Data Sources -- High-Performance GRID Stream Database Manager for Scientific Data -- Optimization of Data Access for Grid Environment -- ATLAS Data Challenges in GRID Environment on CYFRONET Cluster -- MAPFS-Grid: A Flexible Architecture for Data-Intensive Grid Applications -- RAID-1 and Data Stripping across the GRID -- A Parallel I/O Middleware to Integrate Heterogeneous Storage Resources on Grids -- Mobile Work Environment for Grid Users -- Grid-Enabled Visualization with GVK -- Grid Services for HLA-Based Distributed Simulation Frameworks -- A Grid-Enabled Air Quality Simulation -- GRID Oriented Implementation of Self-organizing Maps for Data Mining in Meteorology -- Grid Computing in Structure Determination of Biological Specimens by Electron Microscope Tomography -- A Grid Representation for Distributed Virtual Environments -- Interactive Distributed Data Access in a GRID Environment -- Dynamic Grid Catalog Information Service -- Network Performance Measurements as Part of Feasibility Studies on Moving an ATLAS Event Filter to Off-Site Institutes -- A Flexible Multi-level Grid Monitoring Architecture -- Automatic Services Discovery, Monitoring and Visualization of Grid Environments: The MapCenter Approach -- Monitoring Grid Applications with Grid-Enabled OMIS Monitor -- The G-PM Tool for Grid-Oriented Performance Analysis -- Jiro Based Grid Infrastructure Monitoring System – State of Development Report -- Performance Prediction in a Grid Environment -- ULabGrid, an Infrastructure to Develop Distant Laboratories for Undergrad Students over a Grid -- Wireless Java-Enabled MIDP Devices as Peers in a Grid Infrastructure -- TCP Behavior on Transatlantic Lambda’s -- Grid Characteristics and Uses: A Grid Definition -- An Overview of European Grid Projects -- The CrossGrid Architecture: Applications, Tools, and Grid Services -- Comparison of Grid Middleware in European Grid Projects.