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Sensor Data As A Service - A Federated Platform For Mobile Data-Centric Service Development And Sharing, Jia Zhang, Bob Iannucci, Mark Hennessy, Kaushik Gopal, Sean Xiao, Sumeet Kumar, David Pfeffer, Basmah Aljedia, Yuan Ren, Martin Griss, Steven Rosenberg, Jordan Cao, Anthony Rowe Jun 2013

Sensor Data As A Service - A Federated Platform For Mobile Data-Centric Service Development And Sharing, Jia Zhang, Bob Iannucci, Mark Hennessy, Kaushik Gopal, Sean Xiao, Sumeet Kumar, David Pfeffer, Basmah Aljedia, Yuan Ren, Martin Griss, Steven Rosenberg, Jordan Cao, Anthony Rowe

Jia Zhang

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers the promise of integrating the digital world of the Internet with the phys-ical world in which we live. But realizing this promise necessitates a systematic approach to integrating the sensors, actuators, and information on which they operate into the Internet we know today. This paper reports the design and development of an open community-oriented platform aiming to support federated sensor data as a service, featuring interoperability and reusability of heterogeneous sensor data and data services. The concepts of virtual sensors and virtual devices are identified as central autonomic units to model scalable and context-aware …


Bridging Vistrails Scientific Workflow Management System To High Performance Computing, Jia Zhang, Petr Votava, Tsengdar J. Lee, Owen Chu, Clyde Li, David Liu, Kate Liu, Norman Xin, Ramakrishna Nemani Jun 2013

Bridging Vistrails Scientific Workflow Management System To High Performance Computing, Jia Zhang, Petr Votava, Tsengdar J. Lee, Owen Chu, Clyde Li, David Liu, Kate Liu, Norman Xin, Ramakrishna Nemani

Jia Zhang

NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) is a collaboration platform whose goal is to accelerate Earth science research, by leveraging NASA’s vast collections of global satellite data together with access to NASA’s High-End Computing (HEC) facilities. NEX also aims to facilitate the sharing of experimental results as well as scientific processes (workflows) with the Earth science community through integration with VisTrails workflow management system. While VisTrails is used internally, it is not easily accessible from remote computers without directly logging into the NASA HEC systems through two-factor authentication and a bastion host. This paper describes the initial design of an extensible architecture …


A Technique Of Analyzing Trust Relationships To Facilitate Scientific Service Discovery And Recommendation, Jia Zhang, Petr Votava, Tsengdar J. Lee, Shrikant Adhikarla, Isaraporn Kulkumjon, Matthew Schlau, Divya Natesan, Ramakrishna Nemani Jun 2013

A Technique Of Analyzing Trust Relationships To Facilitate Scientific Service Discovery And Recommendation, Jia Zhang, Petr Votava, Tsengdar J. Lee, Shrikant Adhikarla, Isaraporn Kulkumjon, Matthew Schlau, Divya Natesan, Ramakrishna Nemani

Jia Zhang

Most of the existing service discovery methods focus on finding candidate services based on functional and non-functional requirements. However, while the open science community engenders many similar scientific services, how to differentiate them remains a challenge. This paper proposes a trust model that leverages the implicit human factor to help quantify the trustworthiness of candidate services. A hierarchical Knowledge-Social-Trust (KST) network model is established to draw hidden information from various publication repositories (e.g., DBLP) and social networks (e.g., Twitter). As a proof of concept, a prototyping service has been developed to help scientists evaluate and visualize trust of services. The …