Many sectors, like finance, medicine, manufacturing, and education, use blockchain
applications to profit from the unique bundle of characteristics of this technology. Blockchain …

Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is a particularly powerful tool for plant phenoty**, due to
reasonable cost of procurement and deployment, ease and flexibility for control and …

Open Science is an umbrella term encompassing a multitude of assumptions about the
future of knowledge creation and dissemination. Based on a literature review, this chapter …

The increasing availability of high-quality experimental data and first-principles calculations
creates opportunities for develo** more accurate empirical force fields for simulation of …

Following decades of sustained improvement, metaheuristics are one of the great success
stories of optimization research. However, in order for research in metaheuristics to avoid …

Since 2001, the Pegasus Workflow Management System has evolved into a robust and
scalable system that automates the execution of a number of complex applications running …

The pMSSM provides a broad perspective on SUSY phenomenology. In this paper we
generate two new, very large, sets of pMSSM models with sparticle masses extending up to …

The iPlant Foundation API (fAPI) is a hosted, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) resource for the
computational biology field. Unlike many other grid-based approaches to distributed …

Forecasting and prediction of natural events, such as tropical and extra-tropical cyclones,
inland flooding, and severe winter weather, provide critical guidance to emergency …

The HTCondor-CE is the next-generation gateway software for the Open Science Grid
(OSG). This is responsible for providing a network service which authorizes remote users …