Grid Computing: Achievements and Prospects, the 9th edited volume of the CoreGRID series, includes selected papers from the CoreGRID Integration Workshop, held April 2008 in Heraklion-Crete, Greece. This event brings together representatives of the academic and industrial communities performing Grid research in Europe. The workshop was organized in the context of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence in order to provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of views on the latest developments in grid technology research.

"Grid Computing: Achievements and Prospects, the 9th edited volume of the CoreGRID series, includes selected papers from the CoreGRID Integration Workshop, held April 2008 in Heraklion-Crete, Greece. This event brings together representatives of the academic and industrial communities performing Grid research in Europe. The workshop was organized in the context of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence in order to provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of views on the latest developments in grid technology research.

Query Processing Over The Grid: The Role Of Workflow Management.- From Orc Models To Distributed Grid Java Code.- Using Cliques Of Nodes To Store Desktop Grid Checkpoints.- EDGeS: The Common Boundary Between Service And Desktop Grids.- P2P-based Job Assignment For Public Resource Computing.- Estimating The Size Of Peer-To-Peer Networks Using Lambert's W Function.- Comparative Evaluation Of The Robustness Of DAG Scheduling Heuristics.- Prototype Implementation Of A Demand Driven Network Monitoring Architecture.- A Scalable Architecture For Discovery And Planning In P2P Service Networks.- Performance Visualization Of Grid Applications Based On OCM-G And Paraver.- Analysing Orchestrations Using Risk Profiles And Angel-Daemon Games.- Towards Coordinated Data Management For High-Performance Distributed Multimedia Content Analysis.- Towards A Standards-Based Grid Scheduling Architecture.- Dynamic Service-Based Integration Of Mobile Clusters In Grids.- Comparison Of Multi-Criteria Scheduling Techniques.- Comparison Of Centralized And Decentralized Scheduling Algorithms Using GSSIM Simulation Environment.- A Data-Centric Security Analysis Of ICGrid.- A Framework For Resource Availability Characterization And Online Prediction In The Grids.- A Grid Environment For Real-Time Multiplayer Online Games.- IANOS: An Intelligent Application Oriented Scheduling Framework For An HPCN Grid.- On Consistency Of Data In Structured Overlay Networks.- LooPo-HOC: A Grid Component with Embedded Loop Parallelization.- Implementing Dynamic Querying Search in k-ary DHT-based Overlays.