Abstract

This collection of articles on ‘Workflows for e-Science’is very timely and important. Increasingly, to attack the next generation of scientific problems, multidisciplinary and distributed teams of scientists need to collaborate to make progress on these new ‘Grand Challenges’. Scientists now need to access and exploit computational resources and databases that are geographically distributed through the use of high speed networks.‘Virtual Organizations’ or ‘VOs’ must be established that span multiple administrative domains and/or institutions and which can provide appropriate authentication and authorization services and access controls to collaborating members. Some of these VOs may only have a fleeting existence but the lifetime of others may run into many years. The Grid community is attempting to develop both standards and middleware to enable both scientists and industry to build such VOs routinely and …

Date

2007

Authors

Dennis Gannon, E Deelman, I Taylor, M Shields

Publisher

Springer Verlag, forthcoming