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- Data Management
  - Requirements
    - Fast Transfer of Large Files
    - Accessing Data from Different Locations
    - Accessing Heterogeneous Data
    - Replication of Data for Speed and Robustness
    - Federate a Number of Data Sources
  - Capabilities
    - Avoid Transferring Data
    - Access to a Remote Data Source
    - Homogenise Data Sources
    - Synchronise Multiple Data Sources
    - Treat Multiple Data Sources as One
  - Design Patterns
    - Data Source Publisher Pattern
    - Query Translator Pattern
    - Primary-Secondary Replicator Pattern
    - Data Federation Pattern
  - Components
    - OGSA-DAI Trigger Mechanism
    - OGSA-DAI Data Publisher
    - OGSA-DAI JDBC Driver
    - OGSA-DAI Query Translator
- Licence Management
  - Requirements
    - Gridfication of currently used Licence Management systems
    - Limited LSP capability
    - Grid Licence Models
  - Capabilities
    - LM related Extension of Job Description and Submission
    - Licence Management related Authorization
    - Licence Management related Scheduler Extension
    - Licence Management related Resource Management Extension
    - Licence Proxy
    - Licence Management related Billing and Accounting
    - Encapsulation of Licence Server
  - Design Patterns
    - Generic Licence Management Architecture
    - Resource Management based Proxy Pattern
  - Components
    - LM-Architecture
    - LM-Proxy (1st Version)
    - LM-Proxy (2nd Version)
    - LM Job Submission for Unicore
- Security
  - Requirements
    - Trust and security through message level enforcement
    - Adaptive Enforcement
    - Distributed access control methodologies
    - Data protection and Infrastructure security
    - Secure Service Management
  - Capabilities
    - Prove the Validity of Claims
    - Policy Based Access Control
    - Secure end-to-end Communication Within a Federation
    - Policy Engine
    - Connection Bridge
    - Security Update
    - Encryption Level Broker
  - Design Patterns
    - Token Service Pattern
    - PDP Pattern
    - PEP Factory
    - Event Policy Control
    - End-to-end Security in a Federation Pattern
    - Third party trusted authentication
    - Connection Bridge
    - Security observer
    - Encryption level broker
    - PK Manager
  - Components
    - Security Token Service
    - Policy Decision Point
    - Policy Enforcement Point
    - Public Key Manager
    - Connection Bridge
    - Security Observer
- Service Level Agreements
  - Requirements
    - SLA template specification
    - Publication & Discovery
    - Negotiation
    - Provider Resource Optimisation
    - Monitoring
    - Re-negotiation
    - Evaluation
    - Accounting
  - Capabilities
    - Optimisation of Resource Selection
    - Runtime Monitoring
    - Negotiation
    - Publication and Discovery
    - SLA Template
    - SLA Accounting
  - Design Patterns
    - Optimisation of Resource Selection
    - Runtime Monitoring
    - Negotiation
    - SLA Accounting
  - Components
    - SLA Negotiation
    - SLA Monitoring and Evaluation
    - Resource Selection Optimization
- Portals
  - Requirements
    - Portals Security
    - User management
    - Accounting
    - File management
    - Heterogeneous database access
    - Job submission
    - Job monitoring and control
    - Job visualization
  - Capabilities
    - Portals Security
    - User Management
    - Accounting
    - File Management
    - Database Access
    - Job Submission Monitoring and Control (JSMC)
    - Job Visualisation
  - Design Patterns
    - Portals Security
    - User Management
    - Accounting
    - File Management
    - Database Access
    - Job Submission Monitoring and Control (JSMC)
    - Job Visualisation
  - Components
    - Portals Security
    - Job Submission Monitoring and Control (JSMC)
    - File Management
    - User Management
    - EnginFrame Grid Portal
- VO Management
  - Requirements
    - Virtualisation of Resources of the Hosting Environments
    - Separation of Infrastructure Management Capabilities from Application Specific Ones
    - Application Deployment
    - Management of VO Policies
    - Secure Federation
    - Policies and Mechanisms for VO Membership and Authorisation
    - Resource Annotation
    - Automatic Resources/Services Discovery
  - Capabilities
    - Creation of Instances on Distributed Hosting Environments
    - Application Virtualisation & Management
    - Secure Federation
    - Automatic Resource Discovery
    - VO Set-up
  - Design Patterns
    - VHEFactory
    - Application Virtualisation
    - Secure Federation
    - Automatic Discovery Façade
    - VO Set-up
  - Components
    - VO Setup
    - Application Virtualization
    - Automatic Resource Discovery
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