CINET 2.0: A CyberInfrastructure for Network Science

Author

Abdelhamid, Sherin ; Alam, M. ; Alo, Richard ; Arifuzzaman, Shaikh ; Beckman, Pete ; Bhattacharjee, Tonmoy ; Bhuiyan, Hasanuzzaman ; Bisset, Keith ; Eubank, Stephen ; Esterline, Albert C. ; Fox, Edward A. ; Fox, Geoffrey C. ; Shamimul Hasan, S.M. ; Hayatn

Author_Institution

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2014

fDate

20-24 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

324

Lastpage

331

Abstract

Analysis of structural properties and dynamics of networks is currently a central topic in many disciplines including Social Sciences, Biology and Business. CINET, a cyber infrastructure for such studies, introduced the concept of supporting network analysis as a service. The basic idea is to allow experts in various disciplines to focus on obtaining domain-specific insights from the results of network analyses instead of worrying about programming details and allocation of computational resources needed to carry out the analyses. A basic version of CINET was released in May 2012. This paper discusses CINET 2.0, a significantly enhanced version that supports complex network analyses through a web portal. CINET 2.0 has already been used for teaching courses related to Network Science at several US universities. In this paper, we discuss how CINET 2.0 significantly extends CINET 1.0 through enhancements to some components and the addition of new components.

Keywords

portals; teaching; CINET 2.0; Web portal; complex network analysis; teaching courses; Algorithm design and analysis; Generators; Hardware; Libraries; Usability; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Science (e-Science), 2014 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sao Paulo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4288-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eScience.2014.21

Filename

6972280