On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:07, Alan R Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Google Summer of Code is now at the stage for students to apply to work > on a project. See > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2011 > > There are two Taverna-related projects: > > http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/Wrapper which is to "allow BOINC > (and other) projects to execute arbitrary binaries that ship with Debian" > > and > > http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/GeneticCloning which is to > "improve the interplay of several tools for preclinical research and > write respective tutorials". > > Even if you or your students are not interested in those projects, there > are lots of others and it is very good experience to work on gsoc.
Not to forget that Globus also participates in GSOC, one of the suggestions is a Taverna plugin for aiding service discovery: Description: The Internet, the Grid and the newly emerging cloud environment have provided a community platform for scientists to share various kinds of resources (e.g., experimental data and analytical applications) in the form of services. However, our recent analysis revealed that the reusability of scientific services is very low. How to effectively and efficiently help scientists find suitable services and help them construct new workflows (experimental process) with existing services remains a big challenge. This project proposes to tackle this issue by intelligently extracting information from the shared computing environment, leveraging the power of social network analysis and complex network theories. Such a heuristic approach may complement the existing syntax and semantics-oriented services discovery research, and provide guidance to the construction of the next-generation of service search engine. The driving factor of the research is our hypothesis that there is much useful information implicit in the past use of scientific services. This project aims to answer two fundamental questions: What implicit information may be extracted to help scientists better understand existing artifacts? and How can such implicit information be used to facilitate service-based artifact reuse? To this end, the project will build models and techniques to study the past behaviors of scientific services in the context of scientific experimental processes. As a proof of concept, this project will build a prototyping search engine, as a plugin to Taverna, a known life science scientific workflow management workbench. http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011_Ideas#Semantics-Oriented_Behavior-Empowered_Scientific_Service_Search_Engine -- Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team School of Computer Science The University of Manchester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ taverna-hackers mailing list [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/ Developers Guide: http://www.taverna.org.uk/developers/
