Laying the Foundations for the Semantic Grid

Information relating to the resources, applications and the user's wishes are key to the transparent and effective exploitation of the federated resources within Computational Grids. These federated data, computational or software resources are owned by real organisations and made available as services to different computational communities or virtual organisations spanning multiple administrative boundaries. Higher-level services use the information relating to the resources' capability and the mechanisms for service fulfilment to automatically discover interoperable services and select the most appropriate service for the user with minimal human intervention