We present the initial architecture and implementation of VLab, a Grid and Web‐Service‐
based system for enabling distributed and collaborative computational chemistry and …

Velo is a reusable, domain-independent knowledge-management infrastructure for
modeling and simulation. Velo leverages, integrates, and extends Web-based open source …

Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several
authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (eg Kerberos and X. 509), it may …

Digital artifacts result from complex, heterogeneous work processes involving content
management, process execution, and curation. Accordingly, systems for tracking …

Modern scientific enterprises are inherently knowledge-intensive. In general, scientific
studies in domains such as geosciences, climate, and biology require the acquisition and …

To enable and support innovative research in science and engineering, the next generation
Cyberinfrastructure must be able to support collaboration across disciplines and conceptual …

Workflows and data pipelines are becoming increasingly valuable to computational and
experimental sciences. These automated systems are capable of generating significantly …

With the increasing amount of data sources and applications made accessible on the
internet, scientists are enabled to complement their lab experiments with computerised …

This thesis investigates one of the fundamental problems for Ubiquitous Computing:
managing metadata to enable resource discovery. This work presents a flexible and general …

Modern scientific enterprises are inherently knowledge-intensive. In general, scientific
studies in domains such as geoscience, chemistry, physics and biology require the …