With contributions from well-established researchers worldwide, this edited volume focuses on solving research challenges for Grid and P2P technologies. The book also includes new challenges related to service-oriented infrastructures.

CoreGRID brings together a critical mass of well-established researchers worldwide, from forty-two institutions active in the fields of Peer to Peer Computing, Distributed Systems and Middleware, Programming Models, Algorithms, Tools and Environments

XtreemOS: a Sound Foundation for Cloud Infrastructure and Federations.- Towards a Grid File System Based on a Large-Scale BLOB Management Service.- Improving the Dependability of Grids via Short-Term Failure Predictions.- Distributed Data Mining using a Public Resource Computing Framework.- Integration of the ProActive Suite and the semantic-oriented monitoring tool SemMon.- An Experimental Evaluation of the DQ-DHT Algorithm in a Grid Information Service.- Reducing traffic in DHT-based discovery protocols for dynamic resources.- Autonomic management of multiple non-functional concerns in behavioural skeletons.- Decision Models for Resource Aggregation in Peer-to-Peer Architectures.- Mapping Workflows on Grid Resources: Experiments with the Montage Workflow.- A Proposal on Enhancing XACML with Continuous Usage Control Features.- Self-* and Adaptive Mechanisms for Large Scale Distributed Systems.- Network Monitoring in the age of the Cloud.- Recent Advances and Research Challenges in Desktop Grid and Volunteer Computing.- Research Challenges in Managing and Using Service Level Agreements.