This volume consists of the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on
Grid Services Engineering and Management (GSEM 2004) that was held in conjunction
with the 5th International Conference Net.ObjectDays 2004 (NODE
2004) and the European Conference on Web Services 2004 (ECOWS 2004) in
Erfurt, Germany on 27–30 September 2004.
The Grid has emerged as a global platform to support on-demand virtual
organizations for coordinated sharing of distributed data, applications and processes.
Service orientation of the Grid also makes it a promising platform for
seamless and dynamic development, integration and deployment of service-oriented
applications. The application components can be discovered, composed and
delivered within a Grid of services, which are loosely coupled to create dynamic
business processes and agile applications spanning organizations and computing
platforms. The technologies contributing to such grids of services include
Web services, the semantic Web, grid computing, component software and agent
technologies.