Abstract
Scientific communities are actively developing services to exploit the capabilities of service-oriented distributed systems. This exploitation requires services to be specified and developed for a range of activities such as querying, management and scheduling of workflows, image handling, provenance capture and management, amongst other activities. Most of these services are designed and developed for a particular community of scientific users. A key issue here is that the constraints imposed by architectures, interfaces or platforms can restrict or even prohibit the free interchange of services between disparate scientific communities who have a shared need for a particular service. Using the notion of "Platform as a Service" (PaaS), we propose an architectural approach that addresses these limitations so that that users can make use of a wider range of services without being concerned about the development of cross-platform middleware, wrappers or any need for bespoke applications in order to cross the boundaries between differing communities. The proposed architecture shields heterogeneous Grid and Cloud infrastructural detail with a brokering environment, thus enabling users to concentrate on the specification of higher level services that are more relevant to the intended application.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2011 International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT) |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 55-62 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781457708404 |
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Publication status | Published - 15 Nov 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2nd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies - Tirana, Albania Duration: 7 Sep 2011 → 9 Sep 2011 Conference number: 2 |
Conference
Conference | 2nd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies |
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Abbreviated title | EIDWT 2011 |
Country/Territory | Albania |
City | Tirana |
Period | 7/09/11 → 9/09/11 |