Introduction: Business and Technological Drivers of Grid Computing -- The BEinGRID Project -- Grid and Cloud Basics - Definition, Classification, Business Models -- Grid Basics -- Cloud Basics #x2013; An Introduction to Cloud Computing -- Grid Business Models -- Grid Value Chains #x2013; What is a Grid...

"This book offers over 400 accounts from a wide range of specific research efforts on methodologies, tools, and architectures for complex distributed systems that address the practical issues of performance guarantees, timed execution, real-time management of resources, synchronized...

1. Harnessing the cloud for mobile social networking applications / Juwel Rana ... [et al.] -- 2. Balanced job scheduling based on ant algorithm for grid network / Nikolaos Preve -- 3. Evaluating heuristics for scheduling dependent jobs in grid computing environments / Geoffrey Falzon and...

"Distributed computing, through the power of grids or clouds, has allowed software and hardware developers to achieve high performance computing through cutting-edge technologies that are constantly changing. Grid and Cloud Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications presents a...