Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes a file f...

This paper analyzes a serious limitation of existing metacomputing directory service of Globus project that the existing metacomputing directory service doesn’t support application-oriented queries, and then designs an artificial-neural-network-based GRC (grid resources classifier) to eliminate this limitation. This classifier extends the metacomputing directory service by classifying grid reso...

When there are huge volumes of information dispersing in the various machines, global directory services are required for the users. DSCloud Platform provides the global directory service , in which the directories are created and maintained by the users themselves. In this paper, we describe the DSCloud Platform directory service’s functions, authorization, mounting users’ local file systems ,...

The TISDAG (Technical Infrastructure for Swedish Directory Access Gateway) project provided valuable insight into the current reality of deploying a wide-scale directory service. This document catalogues some of the experiences gained in developing the necessary infrastructure for a national (i.e., multi-organizational) directory service and pilot deployment of the service in an environment wit...

this survey is aimed to compare the hierarchical structure of subject directories, including yahoo, the open directory and looksmart with dewey decimal classification (ddc) in 10 selective subjects. five questions are raised to compare the broadness and the depth of the hierarchical structures in the subject directories and ddc and to study the effectiveness of the usage of ddc in the organizat...