Cloud computing is gaining tremendous momentum in both academia and industry. The
application of Cloud computing, however, has mostly focused on Web applications and …

Provenance refers to any information describing the production process of an end product,
which can be anything from a piece of digital data to a physical object. While this survey …

Cloud environments can provide virtualized, elastic, controllable and high quality on-
demand services for supporting complex distributed applications. However, the engineering …

Cloud computing is gaining tremendous momentum in both academia and industry. In this
context, we define the term “Cloud Workflow” as the specification, execution and provenance …

The increasing volume of data being produced, curated, and made available by research
infrastructures in the environmental science domain require services that are able to …

Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm that can offer unprecedented
scalability and resources on demand, and is getting more and more adoption in the science …

Organizations that collect and analyze data may wish or be mandated by regulation to justify
and explain their analysis results. At the same time, the logic that they have followed to …

Workflow security has become increasingly important and challenging in today's open
service world. While much research has been conducted on various security issues of …

Recently, persistent data structures, like key-value stores (KVSs), which are stored in a high-
performance computing (HPC) system's nonvolatile memory, provide an attractive solution …

Provenance, which is one kind of metadata that captures the derivation history of a data
product, including its original data sources, intermediate products, and the steps that were …