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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Pilar Herrero María S. Pérez Víctor Robles (Eds.)

ScientificApplications of Grid Computing First International Workshop, SAG 2004 Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004 Revised Selected and Invited Papers

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Volume Editors Pilar Herrero María S. Pérez Víctor Robles Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Facultad de Informática Campus de Montegancedo S/N 28.660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain E-mail: {pherrero,mperez,vrobles}@fi.upm.es

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Preface

We wish to extend a warm welcome to the reader of this extended postproceedings publication of SAG 2004, the 1st International Workshop on Scientific Applications on Grid Computing. This workshop was held in September 2004, in conjunction with the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004). The WI and IAT conferences have provided, for several years, a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to ex