Validating the distributed ontology framework for deployment onto the Semantic Grid environment

As the vision of the Semantic Grid slowly becomes a reality, more and more people will start migrating their applications onto the Semantic Grid Environment as Grid Resources. Their applications will have the ability to use a wide range of grid resources as well as have exposure to a larger population of potential users. This paper explores some of the main obstacles that obstruct the deployment of the Distributed Ontology Framework onto the Semantic Grid Environment. The results are a set of Validation Criteria that can be used to determine if particular systems are ready to be deployed on the Semantic Grid.