COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE OVER SERVICE-ORIENTED GRID
Grid computing has evolved dramatically, migrating to service oriented Grids: the third generation Grids. As a result, there has been great interest from both industry and the research community in enabling collaborative service provisioning through operational virtual communities over the grid. However, the existing service providing mechanism of the Grid is too rigid to provide the flexibility for a wide range of collaborative services. Lacking virtual community support at the operation level becomes a major barrier to promoting collaborative services over the Grid environment. In this paper we propose a collaborative workspace over service-oriented grid for developing operationally transparent virtual communities in a wide variety of domains.
