Grid computing is considered the next step of distributed computing architectures. For such service oriented architectures the resource management is an important component that has to cope with the challenges of heterogeneous, decentralized and autonomous resources. The use of agreements is expected to become a key technology for the reliable interaction between resource providers and consumer...

Assessing the relative effectiveness of international environmental agreements accurately requires careful attention to the structures of the problems they address. Although even studies of single agreements would beneat by evaluating the inouence of problem structure, problem structure poses particularly large analytic challenges for scholars interested in the relative effectiveness of environ...

Faculty Association [10] The Faculty Association is the representative for all persons employed by the University of Guelph in the City of Guelph, at the Kemptville campus in the Municipality of North Grenville, at the Ridgetown campus in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, at the Vineland Research Station in Relevant documents are available through the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (A...