Ecology is inherently cross-disciplinary, drawing together many types of information to
address questions about the natural world. Finding and integrating relevant data to assist in …

This paper presents a review of the state of the art for digital twins in the application domain
of engineering dynamics. The focus on applications in dynamics is because:(i) they offer …

Workflow technology is a generic mechanism to integrate diverse types of available
resources (databases, servers, software applications and different services) which facilitate …

Many scientific disciplines are now data and information driven, and new scientific
knowledge is often gained by scientists putting together data analysis and knowledge …

This collection of articles on 'Work? ows for e-Science'is very timely and-portant.
Increasingly, to attack the next generation of scienti? c problems, multidisciplinary and …

Life sciences research is based on individuals, often with diverse skills, assembled into
research groups. These groups use their specialist expertise to address scientific problems …

Recent developments in Web service technologies and the semantic Web have shown
promise for automatic discovery, access, and use of Web services to quickly and efficiently …

Discovering and accessing suitable geographic information (GI) in the open and distributed
environments of current Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) is a crucial task. Catalogues …

Scientific workflows are becoming increasingly important as a unifying mechanism for
interlinking scientific data management, analysis, simulation, and visualization tasks …

The ability to process geospatial data will be a great benefit for spatial data infrastructures.
This requires the ability to compose data providing services with geoprocessing services …