A computational grid provides coordinated and transparent access to computing resources for grid users. Workflow management and resource discovery are two important functions of an intelligent grid. Workflow management refers to automatic workflow creation and coordinated workflow execution, and resource discovery facilitates resource allocation and claiming. In this paper we discuss workflow m...

Training and adaption of employees are time and money consuming. Employees’ turnover can be predicted by their organizational and personal historical data in order to reduce probable loss of organizations. Prediction methods are highly related to human resource management to obtain patterns by historical data. This article implements knowledge discovery steps on real data of a manufacturing pla...

SURFER is an empirical discovery system that given a set of input data and a modelling vocabulary returns the model that best describes that data. The best model is considered to be the one that minimizes the description length of that model plus the data encoded using that model. The search for models is controlled by the a priori estimate of model likelihoods as encoded in the modelling vocab...

Discovering and integrating ambient computational resources is a central topic in AmI. There are two major existing approaches: indirect network-based resource selection and direct tag-based resource identification. We motivate the need to integrate the two approaches through a scenario. We then present an architecture for a pluggable discovery system called UbiDisco. We demonstrate how UbiDisc...

Traditional resource discovery and management systems in Grid Computing tend to be coarse-grained, have fixed static policies and deal exclusively with concrete resource entities e.g. CPUs, memory bytes. In this paper, we present the resource discovery and resource management frameworks that forms part of our Gridkit middleware. These frameworks are underpinned by an overlay network-based commu...

The emerging Grid technologies hold out the promise of a global information channel that is far more powerful and uniquely distinct from the existing internet framework. This paper addresses the issue of resource discovery in Grids and aims to review the current state-of-the-art and provide an up-to-date taxonomy of existing Grid resource discovery methods. The various resource discovery method...