Institute leader: Vladimir Getov (V.S.Getovwestminster.ac.uk), University of Westminster

The research activities of this Institute are focused around the design of novel software environments and tools for GRID systems. The main objective is to develop the design methodology for generic component GRID systems that integrate application components, tools/system components, problem solving environments (PSE)/portal components, and infrastructure components. Our approach encompasses both the adoption of the component model, and its integration into a tools framework, which consists of an integrated components GRID platform, a component support toolkit, and a generic problem-solving toolkit. The design of such a platform will advance significantly the state-of-the-art. It will enable the specification of a core (generic) component-based platform for both applications and tools/systems/PSEs to have a single, seamless “invisible” GRID software infrastructure. The results from this research are expected to be equally valid for both the client/server and the peer-to-peer paradigms.