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This book will focus on new Remote Instrumentation aspects related to middleware architecture, high-speed networking, wireless Grid for acquisition devices and sensor networks, QoS provisioning for real-time control, measurement instrumentation and methodology. Moreover, it will provide knowledge about the automation of mechanisms oriented to accompanying processes that are usually performed by a human. Another important point of this book is focusing on the future trends concerning Remote Instrumentation systems development and actions related to standardization of remote instrumentation mechanisms.

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Part I: Sensors´ Infrastructure.- 1. Grid Computations Not on the Computing Element: The Instrument Element as an Interface to a Control System for On-line HTC Tasks.- 2. Performance Evaluation of the of the DORRI Instrument Element Data Transfer Capabilities.- 3. The Green Grid5000: Instrumenting a Grid with Energy Sensors.- 4. Porting a Seismic Network to the Grid.- 5. Integrating a Multisensor Mobile System in the Grid Infrastructure.- 6. Network Performance Monitoring for Remote Instrumentation Services - The DORII Platform Test Case.- Part II: Software Platforms.- 7. Sortism: A High-Level Simulator for the Evaluation of QoS Models on Grid.- 8. MRA3D: A New Algorithm for Resource Allocation in a Network-aware Grid.- 9. Large-scale Quantum Monte Carlo Electronic Structure Calculations on the EGEE Grid.- 10. Generating a Virtual Computational Grid by Graph Transformations.- 11. Performance Analysis Framework for MPI Application Support on the Remote Instrumentation Grid.- Part III: Grid Infrastructure.- 12. Interactive Grid Access with MPI Support Using Gridsolve on GLITE-Infrastructures.- 13. Enforcing Team Cooperation Using Rational Software Tools into Software Engineering Academic Projects (ETC).- 14. Defense in Depth Strategy - Best Practices of Securing Virtual Laboratories.- 15. File System and Access Technologies for the Large Scale Data Facility.- 16. Policy Driven Data Management in PL-grid Virtual Organizations.- 17. DAME: A Distributed Data Mining and Exploration Framework within the Virtual Observatory.- 18. New Teaching Technologies in Environmental Science - Interactive Teaching with KIWI Remote Instrumentation Platform.- 19. An Agent Service Grid for Supporting Open and Distance Learning.- 20. Laboratories and Complex Systems.

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