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International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web

WES 2002: Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web pp 175–187Cite as

A Service Infrastructure for e-Science: The Case of the ARION System

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The ARION system provides basic e-services of search and retrieval of objects in scientific collections, such as, data sets, simulation models and tools necessary for statistical and/or visualization processing. These collections may represent application software of scientific areas, they reside in geographically disperse organizations and constitute the system content. The user, as part of the retrieval mechanism, may dynamically invoke on-line computations of scientific data sets when the latter are not found into the system. Thus, ARION provides the basic infrastructure for accessing and producing scientific information in an open, distributed and federated system. More advanced e-services, which depend on the scientific content of the system, can be built upon this infrastructure, such as decision making and/or policy support using various information brokering techniques.

ARION is supported by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme, IST-2000-25289, Key Action 3: Digital Heritage and Cultural Content.

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  1. Foundation for Research and Technology — Hellas, Institute of Computer Science, P.O. BOX 1385, GR-711 10, Heraklion, Greece

    Catherine Houstis, Spyros Lalis, Vassilis Christophides, Dimitris Plexousakis, Manolis Vavalis, Marios Pitikakis & Antonis Smardas

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  1. Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, 94065, USA

    Christoph Bussler

  2. Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2D-510, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA

    Richard Hull

  3. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-9020, USA

    Sheila McIlraith

  4. School of Info. Technology and Elec. Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska

  5. Department of Electronic and Information Science, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

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  6. Infolab, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jian Yang

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Houstis, C. et al. (2002). A Service Infrastructure for e-Science: The Case of the ARION System. In: Bussler, C., Hull, R., McIlraith, S., Orlowska, M.E., Pernici, B., Yang, J. (eds) Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web. WES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36189-8_14

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