How dynamic is the Grid? Towards a quality metric for Grid information systems

Proceedings - IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 113-120

  Field, Laurence ^a   Sakellariou, Rizos ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grid Information Systems; Information Freshness

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC NATURE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GRID INFORMATION; GRID INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GRID INFRASTRUCTURES; GRID SERVICES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INFORMATION FRESHNESS; PRODUCTION GRIDS; QUALITY METRICES; QUALITY METRICS; SCALABILITY ISSUE; WEB SEARCHES;

GRID COMPUTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79951616378     PISSN: 15505510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GRID.2010.5697957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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