International Workshop on Grid Computing for Complex Problems

The paper presents history of grid computing and experience management at the Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences. It also presents influenced and current projects, their activities and applications. The ANFAS project has developed the support decision system for flood prevention and protection, integrating the most advanced techniques in data processing and management. The CrossGrid project went to exploitation of new Grid components for interactive computation-and-data intensive applications. Project EGEE is aiming at creating and deploying Grid technologies to enable the widespread uptake of e-Science applications throughout the European Research Area. The Pellucid project is the ontology-based experience management with the aim to relieve and improve work effectively in public organizations. The K-Wf Grid project addresses the need for a better infrastructure for the future Grid environment with envisioned approaches supported by semantic Web and Grid communities. The MEDIGRID project aims at creating a distributed framework for multi-risk assessment of natural disasters; their models will be upgraded to web applications.

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