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Fostering collaboration to better manage water resources
Author(s) -
Voorsluys William,
Araújo Eliane,
Cirne Walfredo,
Galvão Carlos O.,
Souza Enio P.,
Cavalcanti Enilson P.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.1118
Subject(s) - computer science , workflow , grid , grid computing , resource (disambiguation) , water resources , resource management (computing) , knowledge management , data science , process management , distributed computing , business , database , computer network , ecology , geometry , mathematics , biology
Good water management is literally vital for the arid and semi‐arid regions of the planet. Yet good water management requires multidisciplinary expertise, since one must consider climatic, hydrological, economical and social aspects to make balanced decisions on water usage. We here present SegHidro, a Grid portal designed to foster scientific, technical and operational collaboration to improve water resources management. The portal targets researchers and decision makers, enabling them to execute and couple their computational models in a workflow. The portal provides a framework which allows seamless integration of the models, meaning that each phase of the flow may be executed by a different expert and that the resulting data are shared among other portal users. Due to the nature of these applications and the need to execute many prospective scenarios, their execution requires high computing power. However, we go beyond providing high‐performance computational Grid capabilities. We also enable people to complement each other's expertise in understanding the trade‐offs in the water allocation decisions. The SegHidro portal is about sharing: human expertise, data and computing power. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.