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User-centered Design Practice for Grid-enabled Simulation in e-Science

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e-Science promotes global research collaboration based on Grid, hence building a user infrastructure that can facilitate the use of physical Grids to improve the Grid usability and accessibility becomes critical. This paper proposes to use a user-centered design approach to build a user level infrastructure for running Grid-enabled simulations, and reviews associated technologies. In a case study, a user infrastructure formulated by encompassing the user-centered design approach for running quantum mechanical simulation of material properties in a Grid environment is discussed.

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    Xiaoyu Yang, Martin Dove & Richard Bruin

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Yang, X., Dove, M. & Bruin, R. User-centered Design Practice for Grid-enabled Simulation in e-Science. New Gener. Comput. 28, 147–159 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00354-008-0082-4

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