Provenance metadata has become increasingly important to support scientific discovery
reproducibility, result interpretation, and problem diagnosis in scientific workflow …

Scientific workflow has recently become an enabling technology to automate and speed up
the scientific discovery process. Although several scientific workflow management systems …

MapReduce has recently gained a lot of attention as a parallel programming model for
scalable data-intensive business and scientific analysis. In order to benefit from this powerful …

Modern scientific computations are usually data intensive, involving large-scale,
heterogeneous and structured scientific datasets. Modeling, organizing, and processing …

We are at the beginning of the new era of “e-science”. Researchers in many areas of
science, especially in astrophysics, physics, climatology and biology, are now facing …