Special Issue: Advanced Strategies in Grid Environments-Models and Techniques for Scheduling and Programming

摘要

This special issue focuses on 'advanced scheduling strategies and Grid programming environments', and is based on selected papers from the Fifth International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2007). The authors were invited to provide extended versions of their original papers taking into account comments and suggestions raised during the peer review process and comments from the audience during the workshop. Relevant contributions have been provided by Jones, Caminero et al., Rosinha et al., Vidal et al., and Talukder et al., focusing on multi-site scheduling techniques, an autonomic network-aware scheduling architecture, a work stealing programming environment, a semantic approach to improve resource scheduling, and a workflow execution planning approach using multi-objective differential evolution.