Quantitative quality of service for grid computing : applications for heterogeneity, large-scale distribution, and dynamic environments

1. Two approaches of workflow scheduling with QoS in the Grid / Fangpeng Dong, Selim Akl -- 2. Dynamic network optimization for effective Qos support in large Grid infrastructures / Francesco Palmieri, Ugo Fiore -- 3. From enabling to ensuring Grid workflows / Junwei Cao ... [et al.] -- 4. The cost-based resource management in combination with Qos for Grid computing / Chuliang Weng, Jian Cao, Minglu Li -- 5. Providing quantitative scalability improvement of consistency control for large-scale, replication-based Grid systems / Yijun Lu, Hong Jiang, Ying Lu -- 6. QoS-based job scheduling and resource management strategies for Grid computing / Kuo-Chan Huang, Po-Chi Shih, Yeh-Ching Chung -- 7. Grid workflows with encompassed business relationship / Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Andreas Menychtas, Theodora Varvarigou -- 8. Investigating deadline-driven scheduling policy via simulation with East / Justin Wozniak, Aaron Striegel -- 9. Achieving QoS in highly unreliable Grid environments / Antonios Litke -- 10. Implementation and QoS for high-performance GIServices in special information Grid / Fang Huang -- 11. The interactive computing of web knowledge flow - from Web to Knowledge Web / Xiangfeng Luo, Jie Yu -- 12. Reputation evaluation framework based on QoS in Grid economy environments / Guanfeng Liu -- 13. Distributed scheduling protocols for energy efficient large-scale wireless sensor networks / Cheng Fu, Bang Wang --