I have moved on. I am now a research scientist in the Center for Informatics and Computing (CIR) at the Institute Ruđer Bošković (IRB). I am continuing to work on the CloudMan project with Galaxy.

Publications

Journal Papers
  • H. Goto, B. Dickins, E. Afgan, I. M. Paul, J. Taylor, K. D. Makova, and A. Nekrutenko, "Dynamics of mitochondrial heteroplasmy in three families investigated via a repeatable re-sequencing study," Genome Biology, vol. 12, issue R59, 2011. [Open Access]
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., Skala T., "Scheduling and Planning Job Execution of Loosely Coupled Applications," Journal of Supercomputing, Online First, Feb 2011. [PDF]
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., Skala K., “Application Information Services for Distributed Computing Environments”, Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 27, Issue, 2, p. 173-181, 2011. [PDF]
  • Afgan E., Baker D., Coraor N., Chapman B., Nekrutenko A., Taylor J., "Galaxy CloudMan: Delivering Cloud Compute Clusters," BMC Bioinformatics, Vol 11, Issue 12, 2010. [PDF]
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., "Exploiting Performance Characterization of BLAST in the Grid," The Journal of Cluster Computing, Volume 13, Issue 4, pp. 385-395, 2010. [PDF]
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., "Dynamic BLAST – a Grid Enabled BLAST," The International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, Volume 9, Issue 4, p.9, 2009. [PDF]
Book Chapters
  • Afgan E., J. Goecks, D. Baker, N. Coraor, the Galaxy Team, A. Nekrutenko, and J. Taylor, "Galaxy - a Gateway to Tools in e-Science," in Guide to e-Science: Next Generation Scientific Research and Discovery , K. Yang, Ed., ed: Springer, 2011, p. 145-177. [PDF] [Book]
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., Gray J., “A Domain-Specific Language for Describing Grid Applications”, in Software Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Pierre F. Tiako (Eds), IGI Global Publishers, 2009. (derived from original publication) [Publisher's Website]
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., “A framework to assist users with planning and scheduling jobs on the grid”, in Handbook of Research on Grid Technologies and Utility Computing: Concepts for Managing Large-Scale Applications, Udoh E., Wang F. (Eds), IGI Global Publishers, 2009. [Publisher's Website]
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., Gray J., “Configuring Grid Applications from Higher Level Domain-Specific Languages”, in Designing Software-Intensive Systems: Methods and Principles, Pierre F. Tiako (Eds), IGI Global Publishers, 2008, pp. 402-438. [View on amazon.com]
Conference Proceedings
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., Duncan D., “GridAtlas - A Grid Application and Resource Configuration Repository and Discovery Service”, Int. Conference on Cluster Computing, New Orleans, LA, pp.1-10, August 31-September 4, 2009. PDF
  • Bangalore P., Afgan E., "G-BLAST: A Grid Service for BLAST", 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA '08), Las Vegas, NV, July 14-17, 2008. PDF
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., “Application Specification Language (ASL) - A Language for Describing Applications in Grid Computing”, 4th International Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Managemen (GSEM 2007), Leipzig, Germany, Sept. 24-26, 2007. PDF
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., “Performance Characterization of BLAST on the Grid”, IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE 2007), Boston, MA, Oct 14-17, 2007. PDF
  • Afgan E., Sathyanarayana P., Bangalore P., “Dynamic Task Distribution in the Grid for BLAST”, IEEE GrC 2006, Atlanta, GA, May 10-12, 2006. PDF
  • Afgan E., Jones W., “Design, Development and Usage of a Generic Job Submission Grid Service”, 44th ACM Southeast Conference. Melbourne, FL, March 10-12, 2006. PDF
  • Afgan E., Velusamy V., Bangalore P., “Grid Resource Broker with Application Profiling and Benchmarking”, European Grid Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands, Feb. 14-16, 2005. PDF Poster
  • Afgan E., “Role of the Resource Broker in the Grid”. 42 nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference. Huntsville, AL, Apr. 2-3, 2004. PDF
Refereed Workshop Papers
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., "Embarrassingly Parallel Jobs Are Not Embarrassingly Easy to Schedule on the Grid", SC08 International Conference for High Performance, Networking, Storage and Analysis - Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers, Austin, TX, November 15-21, 2008. PDF
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., "Experiences with developing and deploying Dynamic BLAST", Mardi Gras Conference 2008 - Workshop on Grid-Enabling Applications, New Orleans, LA, January 31-February 2, 2008. PDF
  • Afgan E., Gray J., Bangalore P., “Using Domain-Specific Modeling to Generate User Interfaces for Wizards”, MDDAUI '07 as part of MODELS 2007, Nashville, TN, Sept. 30-October 5, 2007. PDF Presentation in PDF
  • Afgan E., Bangalore P., “Computation Cost in Grid Computing Environments”, First International Workshop on the Economics of Software and Computation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 20, 2007. PDF