Grids are a crucial enabling technology for scientific and industrial development. Peer-to-peer computing, grid, distributed storage technologies, emerging web service technologies, and other types of networked distributed computing have provided new paradigms exploiting distributed resources. Grids are revolutionizing computing as profoundly as e-mail and the Web.

Covers all aspects of grid computing, mainly focusing on pervasive computing for grid information services and peer-to-peer technologies

Component Programming.- Advances in Autonomic Components & Services.- Behavioural model of component-Based Grid Environments.- Towards A Formal Semantics For Autonomic Components.- Integrating Application And System Components With The Grid Component Model.- Resource Management and Scheduling.- An evaluation of availability comparison and Prediction for Optimized Resource Selection in the Grid.- Online Hierarchical Job Scheduling on Grids.- Global Optimization For Scheduling Multiple Co-Reservations In The Grid.- Load Information Sharing Policies In Communication-Intensive Parallel Applications.- A markov model for fault-Tolerant task Parallel Computations.- Service Level Agreement and Self-.- Towards Sla-Based Software Licenses And License Management in Grid Computing.- Using Sla Based Approach To Handle Sabotage Tolerance In The Grids.- Enabling Self-Management Of Component Based Distributed Applications.- Self-Optimizing Classifiers: Formalization And Design Pattern.- Grid Middleware.- A Trace-Based Investigation Of The Characteristics Of Grid Workflows.- Core Services For Grid Markets.- Mining@Home:Public resource Computing For Distributed Data Mining.- Hla Component Based Environment For Distributed Multiscale Simulations.