Grid Middleware and Services: Challenges and Solutions is the eighth volume of the CoreGRID series. The CoreGrid Proceedings is the premiere European event on Grid Computing. This book aims to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid Computing. The main focus in this volume is on Grid middleware and service level agreement.

"Grid Middleware and Services: Challenges and Solutions is the eighth volume of the CoreGRID series. The CoreGrid Proceedings is the premiere European event on Grid Computing. This book aims to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid Computing. The main focus in this volume is on Grid middleware and service level agreement.

Resource Management and Scheduling.- Grid Scheduling with ATOP-Grid under Time Sharing.- Benchmarking Grid Applications.- Data Model for Describing Grid Resource Broker Capabilities.- Meta-Broker for Future Generation Grids: A New Approach for a High-Level Interoperable Resource Management.- Managing Scheduling and Replication in the LHC Grid.- Network Monitoring Session Description.- Sub-contracts: Delegating Contracts for Resource Discovery.- Looking for an Evolution of Grid Scheduling: Meta-Brokering.- Preemption and Share Control in Parallel Grid Job Scheduling.- The Grid Backfilling: a Multi-Site Scheduling Architecture with Data Mining Prediction Techniques.- Storage and Data Management.- Cache-Enabled Super-Peer Overlays for Multiple Job Submission on Grids.- An Analysis of Security Services in Grid Storage Systems.- Analysis of Grid Storage Element Architectures: High-end Fiber-Channel vs. Emerging Cluster-based Networked Storage.- Towards Uniform and Transparent Access to the Grid Information Using the Palantir.- Peer-to-Peer Metadata Management for Knowledge Discovery Applications in Grids.- Grid Workflow and Fault Tolerance.- Taxonomies of the Multi-Criteria Grid Workflow Scheduling Problem.- Real-World Workflow Support in the ASKALON Grid Environment.- A Practical Approach for a Workflow Management System.- Secure and Fault Tolerant Distributed Framework with Mobility Support.- Improvement on Fault-Tolerance and Migration Facilities within the Grid Computing Environment - Integration With The Low-Level Checkpointing Packages.- Towards Automated Diagnosis of Application Faults using Wrapper Services and Machine Learning.- Service Level Agreement.- Using SLA for Resource Management and Scheduling - A Survey.- Managing Violations in Service Level Agreements.- Operating Virtual Organizations using Bipartite Service Level Agreements.- Managing User Expectations with Component Performance Contracts.- Service Level Agreements in Catallaxy-Based Grid Markets.- Improving Business Opportunities of Financial Service Providers through Service Level Agreements.- Implementing WS-Agreement in a Globus Toolkit 4.0 Environment.