Web services represent a relevant technology for interoperability. An important step toward
the development of applications based on Web services is the ability of selecting and …

Several scientific areas, such as bioinformatics and oil engineering, need means of
executing simulation-based experiments. The state of the practice for this, in most of the …

Numerous authors have presented ontology building tools that have all been developed as
part of academic projects and that are usually adaptations of more generic tools for geo …

The proliferation of bioinformatics data and tools brings several challenges: how to
understand and organize these resources, how to exchange and reuse successful …

Background With the large and diverse type of biological data, bioinformatic solutions are
being more complex and computationally intensive. New specialized data skills need to be …

Traceability and Provenance are often used interchangeably in eScience, being associated
with the need scientists have to document their experiments, and so allow experiments to be …

Background Recent medical and biological technology advances have stimulated the
development of new testing systems that have been providing huge, varied amounts of …

Os workflows científicos emergiram como uma abstração básica para estruturar
experimentos científicos baseados em simulações computacionais. Em muitas situações …

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Biographical notes: Amandeep S. Sidhu is a senior researcher at Digital Ecosystems and
Business Intelligence Institute at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, with expertise in …