Grid Resource Management: Towards Virtual and Services Compliant Grid Computing provides a comprehensive account of the architectural issues of grid technology, such as security, data management, logging, and aggregation services and related technologies. After covering the use of grids, grid systems, and the evolution of grid computing, this book discusses the operational issues associated with web services and service-oriented architecture. They also explain the technique of grid and service grid programming. Checking data and execution management in grid computing, this book chronicles the development of grid current trend towards a more service-oriented approach that expose network protocols using standard web services.