Name
Abstract | ||
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In the last 10 years, a new way of doing science is spreading in the world thank to the development of virtual research communities across many geographic and administrative boundaries. A virtual research community is a widely dispersed group of researchers and associated scientific instruments working together in a common virtual environment. This new kind of scientific environment, usually addressed as a "collaboratory", is based on the availability of high-speed networks and broadband access, advanced virtual tools and Grid-middleware technologies which, altogether, are the elements of the e-Infrastructures. The European Commission has heavily invested in promoting this new way of collaboration among scientists funding several international projects with the aim of creating e-Infrastructures to enable the European Research Area and connect the European researchers with their colleagues based in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In this paper we describe the actual status of these e-Infrastructures and present a complete picture of the virtual research communities currently using them. Information on the scientific domains and on the applications supported are provided together with their geographic distribution. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2011 | 10.1007/s10723-011-9187-y | J. Grid Comput. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
e-Infrastructure,e-Science,Virtual research communities,Virtual organization,Gridification | Information system,Data science,Collaboratory,Virtual machine,Commission,Computer science,e-Science,Scientific instrument,European Research Area,Management science,Distributed computing,Virtual organization | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
9 | 2 | 1570-7873 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
11 | 0.63 | 17 |
Authors | ||
15 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giuseppe Andronico | 1 | 62 | 5.67 |
| Valeria Ardizzone | 2 | 42 | 4.78 |
| R. Barbera | 3 | 124 | 15.53 |
| Bruce Becker | 4 | 11 | 0.63 |
| Riccardo Bruno | 5 | 40 | 3.82 |
| Antonio Calanducci | 6 | 32 | 2.14 |
| Diego Carvalho | 7 | 16 | 2.12 |
| Leandro Neumann Ciuffo | 8 | 23 | 3.01 |
| Marco Fargetta | 9 | 43 | 7.86 |
| Emidio Giorgio | 10 | 24 | 4.39 |
| Giuseppe Rocca | 11 | 11 | 0.96 |
| Alberto Masoni | 12 | 12 | 0.98 |
| Marco Paganoni | 13 | 11 | 0.63 |
| Federico Ruggieri | 14 | 12 | 2.35 |
| Diego Scardaci | 15 | 58 | 6.88 |