CyberGIS-BioScope: A Cyberinfrastructure-Based Spatial Decision-Making Environment for Biomass-to-Biofuel Supply Chain Optimization

BioScope, a supply-chain optimization model, is integrated in the CyberGIS Gateway as a science gateway application following a geodesign approach for spatial decision-making environment design and a service integration approach provided by the GISolve middleware services. This gateway application provides a highly interactive user environment for community users and supports optimization of biomass supply chain and the evaluation of optimization model uncertainty through a lightweight computation workflow implementation. The development of uncertainty computation workflow leveraged the job dependency feature of existing job schedulers on CI resources and significantly simplified the execution and management of cyberGIS analytics. The uncertainty analysis feature is being incorporated into CyberGIS-BioScope user environment for community access.