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Reproducibility of scientific workflows execution using cloud-aware provenance (ReCAP) (2018)
Journal Article
Hasham, K., & Munir, K. (2018). Reproducibility of scientific workflows execution using cloud-aware provenance (ReCAP). Computing, 100(12), 1299-1333. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-018-0617-6

© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature. Provenance of scientific workflows has been considered a mean to provide workflow reproducibility. However, the provenance approaches adopted so far are not applicable in the context of C... Read More about Reproducibility of scientific workflows execution using cloud-aware provenance (ReCAP).

The use of ontologies for effective knowledge modelling and information retrieval (2017)
Journal Article
Sheraz Anjum, M., & Munir, K. (2018). The use of ontologies for effective knowledge modelling and information retrieval. Applied Computing and Informatics, 14(2), 116-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aci.2017.07.003

© 2017 The dramatic increase in the use of knowledge discovery applications requires end users to write complex database search requests to retrieve information. Such users are not only expected to grasp the structural complexity of complex databases... Read More about The use of ontologies for effective knowledge modelling and information retrieval.

Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution (2017)
Journal Article
Hasham, K., Munir, K., & McClatchey, R. (2018). Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution. Future Generation Computer Systems, 86, 799-820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.07.015

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The emergence of Cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for scientific workflow execution. It provides dynamic, on-demand and scalable resources that enable the processing of complex workflow-based experiments. With th... Read More about Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution.

Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users (2016)
Journal Article
Javed, B., Bloodsworth, P., Rasool, R. U., Munir, K., & Rana, O. (2016). Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users. Future Generation Computer Systems, 54, 52-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.06.004

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Abstract Cloud providers commonly incur heavy upfront set up costs which remain almost constant whether they serve a single or many customers. In order to generate a return on this investment, a suitable pricing strategy is requi... Read More about Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users.

Provision of an integrated data analysis platform for computational neuroscience experiments (2014)
Journal Article
Munir, K., Kiani, S. L., Hasham, K., McClatchey, R., Branson, A., & Shamdasani, J. (2014). Provision of an integrated data analysis platform for computational neuroscience experiments. Journal of Systems and Information Technology, 16(3), 150-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSIT-01-2014-0004

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated analysis base to facilitate computational neuroscience experiments, following a user-led approach to provide access to the integrated neuroscience dat... Read More about Provision of an integrated data analysis platform for computational neuroscience experiments.

Intelligent grid enabled services for neuroimaging analysis (2013)
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McClatchey, R., Habib, I., Anjum, A., Munir, K., Branson, A., Bloodsworth, P., & Kiani, S. L. (2013). Intelligent grid enabled services for neuroimaging analysis. Neurocomputing, 122, 88-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2013.01.042

This paper reports our work in the context of the neuGRID project in the development of intelligent services for a robust and efficient Neuroimaging analysis environment. neuGRID is an EC-funded project driven by the needs of the Alzheimer's disease... Read More about Intelligent grid enabled services for neuroimaging analysis.

Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses (2013)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., Branson, A., Anjum, A., Bloodsworth, P., Habib, I., Munir, K., …Soomro, K. (2013). Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 82(9), 882-894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.05.005

Introduction With the increasingly digital nature of biomedical data and as the complexity of analyses in medical research increases, the need for accurate information capture, traceability and accessibility has become crucial to medical researchers... Read More about Providing traceability for neuroimaging analyses.

Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL (2012)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., Odeh, M., Munir, K., Munir, K., Odeh, M., & McClatchey, R. (2012). Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL. Knowledge-Based Systems, 35, 144-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2012.04.020

This work investigates the extent to which domain knowledge, expressed in a domain ontology, can assist end-users in formulating relational queries that can be executed over a complex relational database. In this regard, an ontology-driven query form... Read More about Ontology-driven relational query formulation using the semantic and assertional capabilities of OWL-DL.

Context caches in the Clouds (2012)
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Kiani, S. L., Anjum, A., Antonopoulos, N., Munir, K., & McClatchey, R. (2012). Context caches in the Clouds. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 1(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/2192-113X-1-7

In context-aware systems, the contextual information about human and computing situations has a strong temporal aspect i. e. it remains valid for a period of time. This temporal property can be exploited in caching mechanisms that aim to exploit such... Read More about Context caches in the Clouds.

The requirements for ontologies in medical data integration: A case study (2007)
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Hauer, T., Anjum, A., Bloodsworth, P., Branson, A., McClatchey, R., Munir, K., …Shamdasani, J. (2007). The requirements for ontologies in medical data integration: A case study. https://doi.org/10.1109/IDEAS.2007.4318120

Evidence-based medicine is critically dependent on three sources of information: a medical knowledge base, the patient's medical record and knowledge of available resources, including where appropriate, clinical protocols. Patient data is often scatt... Read More about The requirements for ontologies in medical data integration: A case study.