**Meet the editor**

Dr Soha Maad is the founder and manager of IGROW EEIG (Integrated Technologies and Services for Sustainable Growth European Economic Interest Grouping) at INVENT Dublin City University, Ireland. Dr Maad obtained her PhD from the University of Warwick, UK. She has 12 years of research experience in the application of Information and Communication Technologies,

including Grid and High Performance Computing to various domains. Dr Maad is an Associate Honorary Member of HRB Centre for Primary Care Research, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. She worked as a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork, Ireland; INRIA, France, and was an ERCIM fellow at Fraunhofer Institute of Media Communication, Germany.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Advances in Grid Computing - Workflow 1** 

Takashige Hoshiai and Yoshiyori Urano

**Resources Management 47** 

**Intensive Tasks on Grids 49** 

Imran Ahmad and Shikharesh Majumdar

**Discovery in Grid Computing 71**  Leyli Mohammad Khanli, Saeed Kargar

Chapter 5 **Task Scheduling in Grid Environment Using** 

Chapter 6 **Efficient Parallel Application Execution** 

**Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithm 89**  Wael Abdulal, Ahmad Jabas, S. Ramachandram

Alfredo Goldman, Fabio Costa and Raphael Camargo

**Section 3 Advances in Grid Computing - Parallel Execution 111** 

**on Opportunistic Desktop Grids 113**  Francisco Silva, Fabio Kon, Daniel Batista,

**Section 2 Advances in Grid Computing -** 

Chapter 3 **Resource Management for Data** 

Chapter 4 **A New Approach to Resource** 

and Ali Kazemi Niari

and Omar Al Jadaan

Chapter 1 **w-TG: A Combined Algorithm to Optimize the Runtime** 

Chapter 2 **On the Effect of Applying the Task Clustering for Identical Processor Utilization to Heterogeneous Systems 29**  Hidehiro Kanemitsu, Gilhyon Lee, Hidenori Nakazato,

**of the Grid-Based Workflow Within an SLA Context 3**  Dang Minh Quan, Joern Altmann and Laurence T. Yang
