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Science gateway workshops 2013 special issue conference publications
Author(s) -
WilkinsDiehr Nancy,
Gesing Sandra,
Kiss Tamas
Publication year - 2015
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.3362
Subject(s) - gateway (web page) , workflow , computer science , process (computing) , cyberinfrastructure , library science , world wide web , data science , database , operating system
This special issue represents an active collaboration between the organizers of two science gateway workshops. The International Workshop on Science Gateways 2013 has taken place in June 2013 in Zurich and the Science Gateway Institute Workshop 2013, held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster in September 2013 in Indianapolis. The workshops attracted together over 100 international researchers and have led to excellent presentations and publications on science gateway developments, workflow-centered enhancements, science gateway infrastructures, and developments in specific research domains such as the life sciences and health applications. Authors of accepted submissions to the workshops have been invited to submit extended versions for a special issue. This special issue consists of the accepted papers of a further peer review process. The increasing complexity of scientific study and the increasingly digital nature of data have resulted in a myriad of community-developed solutions. Advanced Web portals, also called science gateways, have emerged in many domains. They assemble the computational resources, data collections, visualization capabilities, collaboration tools, and even access to instruments that scientists need to conduct their research. Development of these gateways is also increasingly complex, and developers often find it quite valuable to learn from one another, even across domains. This special issue highlights accepted papers from two workshops. The Fifth annual International Workshop on Science Gateways, held June 2013 in Zurich and the Science Gateway Institute workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster held September 2013 in Indianapolis. Both workshops incorporated a peer review process. Authors of top papers from both events were invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in this special issue. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a forum to showcase science gateway projects and related technologies. Developers can learn from one another and learn about new technologies, and principal investigators can keep abreast on the state of the field. This special issue features contributions in the areas of technologies for building gateways, workflows to enhance the capabilities of gateways, and infrastructures that support science gateways. Also featured are ready-to-use gateways in the life sciences and health applications fields. Providers of science gateway technologies aim at offering generic frameworks to ease the development of science gateways for a specific research domain while providers of distributed computing infrastructures work on supporting communities with computing and data resources. Such infrastructures require policies on usage and security, and the close collaboration with developers of domain-specific science gateways elucidates the demands in the specific research domain. Users of such a domain want to focus on their research questions and create and analyze data in an intuitive and efficient way—regardless of whether the underlying infrastructure provides resources in cloud, grid, or cluster infrastructures.