TY  - RPRT
T1  - Computer Challenges to emerge from e-Science.
Y1  - 2003
A1  - Atkinson, M.
A1  - Crowcroft, J.
A1  - Goble, C.
A1  - Gurd, J.
A1  - Rodden, T.
A1  - Shadbolt, N.
A1  - Sloman, M.
A1  - Sommerville, I.
A1  - Storey, T.
AB  - The UK e-Science programme has initiated significant developments that allow networked grid technology to be used to form virtual colaboratories. The e-Science vision of a globally connected community has broader application than science with the same fundamental technologies being used to support eCommerce and e-Government.     The broadest vision of e-Science outlines a challenging research agenda for the computing community. New theories and models will be needed to provide a sound foundation for the tools used to specify, design, analyse and prove the properties of future grid technologies and applications. Fundamental research is needed in order to build a future e-Science infrastructure and to understand how to exploit the infrastructure to best effect.     A future infrastructure needs to be dynamic, universally available and promote trust. Realising this infrastructure will need new theories, methods and techniques to be developed and deployed. Although often not directly visible these fundamental infrastructure advances will provide the foundation for future scientific advancement, wealth generation and governance.     • We need to move from the current data focus to a semantic grid with facilities for the generation, support and traceability of knowledge.   • We need to make the infrastructure more available and more trusted by developing trusted ubiquitous systems.   • We need to reduce the cost of development by enabling the rapid customised assembly of services.   • We need to reduce the cost and complexity of managing the infrastructure by realising autonomic computing systems.
JF  - EPSRC
ER  - 

TY  - RPRT
T1  - Grid Database Access and Integration: Requirements and Functionalities
Y1  - 2003
A1  - Atkinson, M. P.
A1  - Dialani, V.
A1  - Guy, L.
A1  - Narang, I.
A1  - Paton, N. W.
A1  - Pearson, D.
A1  - Storey, T.
A1  - Watson, P.
AB  - This document is intended to provide the context for developing Grid data service standard recommendations within the Global Grid Forum. It defines the generic requirements for accessing and integrating persistent structured and semi-structured data. In addition, it defines the generic functionalities which a Grid data service needs to provide in supporting discovery of and controlled access to data, in performing data manipulation operations, and in virtualising data resources. The document also defines the scope of Grid data service standard recommendations which are presented in a separate document.
JF  - Global Grid Forum
ER  -