The session dedicated to new programming paradigms includes a talk by Professor Zhiwei Xu, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, entitled ‘Network Centric Operating Systems’. Professor Huamin WANG, NUDT (China), gives a presentation on Internet Virtual Computing Environment (IVCE), while Denis Caromel, INRIA (France) discusses Grid component models and active objects.

 

Andrea Manieri, Engineering (Italy) presents the NESSI vision on research challenges. The European Technology Platform, NESSI (Networking Software and Service Initiative) aims to create synergies and help pave the way for the future Service-based Economy for Europe. Enterprises and research organisations have come on board this project and its working groups to discuss future research challenges. NESSIGrid will foster collaboration in the Grid Research Area and support NESSI in the definition of a Strategic Research Agenda for the context of Grid and Service Oriented Infrastructure.
The talk by Zsolt Nemeth, SZTAKI (Hungary), looks at a highly abstract coordination model for distributed workflow enactment where decentralised control, autonomy, adaptation to high dynamics and partial lack of information are primary concerns. The talk illustrates how this model provides a framework where complex workflow patterns and advanced issues of enactment can be modelled.