Contents of Vol. 1 (2003)

Editors’ Message 1–2 Standards for Grid Computing: Global Grid Forum Charlie Catlett 3–7 Characterizing Grids: Attributes, Definitions, and Formalisms Zsolt Németh and Vaidy Sunderam 9–23 Mapping Abstract Complex Workflows onto Grid Environments Ewa Deelman, James Blythe, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Gaurang Mehta, Karan Vahi, Kent Blackburn, Albert Lazzarini, Adam Arbree, Richard Cavanaugh and Scott Koranda 25–39 Ninf-G: A Reference Implementation of RPC-based Programming Middleware for Grid Computing Y. Tanaka, H. Nakada, S. Sekiguchi, T. Suzumura and S. Matsuoka 41–51 Simulation Studies of Computation and Data Scheduling Algorithms for Data Grids Kavitha Ranganathan and Ian Foster 53–62 Automatic Flow-Control Adaptation for Enhancing Network Performance in Computational Grids Wu-chun Feng, Mark K. Gardner, Michael E. Fisk and Eric H. Weigle 63–74 Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of the Remos Network Monitoring System Bruce Lowekamp, Nancy Miller, Roger Karrer, Thomas Gross and Peter Steenkiste 75–93 Instructions for Authors 95–98