I Introduction to Grids and Resource Management -- 1 The Grid in a Nutshell -- 2 Ten Actions When Grid Scheduling -- 3 Application Requirements for Resource Brokering in a Grid Environment -- 4 Attributes for Communication Between Grid Scheduling Instances -- 5 Security Issues of Grid Resource Management -- II Resource Management in Support of Collaborations -- 6 Scheduling in the Grid Application Development Software Project -- 7 Workflow Management in GriPhyN -- III State of the Art Grid Resource Management -- 8 Grid Service Level Agreements -- 9 Condor and Preemptive Resume Scheduling -- 10 Grid Resource Management in Legion -- 11 Grid Scheduling with Maui/Silver -- 12 Scheduling Attributes and Platform LSF -- 13 PBS Pro: Grid Computing and Scheduling Attributes -- IV Prediction and Matching for Grid Resource Management -- 14 Performance Information Services for Computational Grids -- 15 Using Predicted Variance for Conservative Scheduling on Shared Resources -- 16 Improving Resource Selection and Scheduling Using Predictions -- 17 The ClassAds Language -- 18 Multicriteria Aspects of Grid Resource Management -- 19 A Metaheuristic Approach to Scheduling Workflow Jobs on a Grid -- V Data-Centric Approaches for Grid Resource Management -- 20 Storage Resource Managers -- 21 NeST: A Grid Enabled Storage Appliance -- 22 Computation Scheduling and Data Replication Algorithms for Data Grids -- VI Quality of Service: QoS -- 23 GARA: A Uniform Quality of Service Architecture -- 24 QoS-Aware Service Composition for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems -- VII Resource Management in Peer-to-Peer Environments -- 25 A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Location in Grid Environments -- 26 Resource Management in the Entropia System -- 27 Resource Management for the Triana Peer-to-Peer Services -- VIII Economic Approaches and Grid Resource Management -- 28 Grid Resource Commercialization -- 29 Trading Grid Services within the UK e-Science Grid -- 30 Applying Economic Scheduling Methods to Grid Environments -- References.