July 2007; Hasan, Peter Racz, Cristian Morariu, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller

Abstract:
The development of Grid technology has reached a point at which it is suitable for commercial deployment in a multi-provider environment. The EU Project Akogrimo is driving this development toward the support of mobile participants of a Virtual Organization employing Next-Generation Grid infrastructure. With the support of A4C functions developed within Akogrimo, such mobile Grids can now be commercially exploited. These A4C functions are the focus of this overview, and comprise user authentication, resource access authorization, multi-domain accounting of resource usage, auditing of compliance with SLA, and charging of resource consumption.

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ERCIM NEWS, no. 70, Special: Service-Oriented Computing, ISSN 0926-4981, pages 18-19

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