WS-PGRADE/gUSE Generic DCI Gateway Framework for a Large Variety of User Communities

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 601-630

  Kacsuk, Peter ^a   Farkas, Zoltan ^a   Kozlovszky, Miklos ^a   Hermann, Gabor ^a   Balasko, Akos ^a   Karoczkai, Krisztian ^a   Marton, Istvan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Customized interface; Distributed computing infrastructures; Science gateway; Workflow

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; DESKTOP GRID; SCIENCE GATEWAY; USER COMMUNITIES; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; GRID COMPUTING;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 84871645601     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-012-9240-5     Document Type: Article

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