OnLine Workbenches and Portals, Sociology Workbench SWB

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On-Line Workbenches and Portals,Sociology
Workbench (SWB)
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Ilya Zaslavsky, EC/CSE, SDSU
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Researcher front ends Workbenches and Portals
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• Analytical user interfaces for on-line
  computational tools and databases endpoints in
  overall computational infrastructure
• Ideas
• maximize the advantages of the Web environment
• provide interoperability hooks
• support web-based collaboration
• support distributed computing model
• focus on exploratory analysis of large datasets
  and data collections

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Workbench Architecture(from Larry Smarr, NCSA)
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Workbenches
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• Biology Workbench (NCSA), http//biology.ncsa.uiuc
  .edu/
• Scientists Workbench (Cornell),
  http//www.tc.cornell.edu/SWB/swb.html
• Environment Workbench (NASA), http//satori2.lerc.
  nasa.gov/DOC/EWB/ewbhome.html
• Chemical Engineering Workbench (NCSA),
  http//www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VEG/homepages/tcoffin/ACC
  ESS/Openhouse4-12-99/abstracts/abs-chemwork.html
• Also Medline Workbench (http//www.angis.org.au/m
  edline/mangone.htm, othersSociology Workbench
  (thats us!!)