Distributed computing systems are widely used for the execution of loosely coupled many-
task applications, such as parameter sweeps, workflows, distributed optimization. These …

Galaxy is an open source web based framework for data intensive biomedical research. It is
an environment for interactive analysis that transparently tracks the details of analyses, a …

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was implemented on 25 May 2018 and is
considered the most important development in data privacy regulation in the last 20 years …

Science gateways are user-facing cyberinfrastruc-ture that provide researchers and
educators with Web-basedaccess to scientific software, computing, and data resources …

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) compute infrastructure model has showcased its ability to
transform how access to compute resources is realized; it delivered on the notion of …

Granting agencies invest millions of dollars on the generation and analysis of data, making
these products extremely valuable. However, without sufficient annotation of the methods …

Security is one of the most important challenge that users face in migrating to cloud services.
Users will lose the direct control over their data and they need to trust the cloud service …

Science gateways allow computational scientists to interact with a complex mix of
mathematical models, software tools and techniques, and high performance computers …

Conclusion. Workflows can help in multiple ways. One outcome is improved resource
utilization. This may occur via adapting execution to make sure all resources are used or via …

Background & Motivation. The problem of workflow specification is to specify the in situ
discovery process as a composition of different tools and applications (tasks): What are the …