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+The gCube System - Process Optimisation - Planner Service
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This work is partially funded by the European Commission in the
+context of the D4Science project (www.d4science.eu), under the 1st call of FP7 IST priority.
+
+
+Authors
+-------
+
+* Valia Tsagkalidou (v.tsagkalidou@di.uoa.gr),
+  National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department Informatics.
+  
+* Rena Tsantouli (e.tsantoylh@di.uoa.gr),
+  National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department Informatics.
+  
+* Panagiota Koltsida (p.koltsida@di.uoa.gr),  
+  National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department Informatics.
+
+  
+Version and Release Date
+------------------------
+
+v. 2.0.0, 16/06/2009
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+Provides functionality that helps presentation layer to use gCube services  
+
+
+Download information
+--------------------
+Source code is available from SVN:
+https://svn.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/gcube/trunk/application-support-layer/applicationSupportLayerCore/
+
+Binaries can be downloaded from:
+http://software.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/
+
+
+Documentation 
+-------------
+Documentation is available on-line from the Projects Documentation Wiki:
+
+https://technical.wiki.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/documentation/index.php/ASL
+
+
+Licensing
+---------
+
+This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.  
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