Title :
CyberGIS-BioScope: A Cyberinfrastructure-Based Spatial Decision-Making Environment for Biomass-to-Biofuel Supply Chain Optimization
Author :
Hao Hu ; Tao Lin ; Yan Liu ; Shaowen Wang ; Rodriguez, Luis F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Geogr. & Geographic Inf. Sci., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
Internet; biofuel; decision making; decision support systems; internetworking; middleware; optimisation; production engineering computing; supply chain management; CyberGIS Gateway; CyberGIS-BioScope; GISolve middleware services; biomass supply chain; biomass-to-biofuel supply chain optimization; cyberinfrastructure-based spatial decision-making environment; geodesign approach; lightweight computation workflow; optimization model uncertainty; service integration approach; spatial decision-making environment design; uncertainty analysis feature; Biological system modeling; Biomass; Computational modeling; Data visualization; Logic gates; Optimization; Supply chains;
Conference_Titel :
Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE), 2014 9th
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
