Workflow technologies are emerging as the dominant approach to coordinate groups of
distributed services. However with a space filled with competing specifications, standards …

This paper elaborates on the problem of modeling provenance for both physical and digital
objects. In particular it discusses provenance according to OAIS (ISO 14721: 2003) and how …

Designed for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students, Grid Computing:
Techniques and Applications shows professors how to teach this subject in a practical way …

In this paper, we described the benefits and the challenges of integrating existing scientific
workflow technologies into science gateways. Scientific workflow managers are powerful …

Today, many scientific disciplines heavily rely on computer systems for in-silico
experimentation or data management and analysis. The employed computer hard-and …

Computer-aided image analysis is becoming increasingly important to efficiently and safely
handle large amounts of high-resolution images generated by advanced medical imaging …

The volumetric growth of data complexity is increasing day by day. The computational world
is becoming massive and needs scalable and efficient systems. Data management is an …

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the demand from professionals in
different areas for improving the curricula regarding information security. The use of …

Scientific workflow managers are powerful tools for handling large computational tasks.
Domain scientists find it difficult to create new workflows, so many tasks that could benefit …

Scientific communities are under increasing pressure from funding organizations to publish
their raw data, in addition to their traditional publications, in open archives. Many scientists …