Publications

  Book Chapter

• Realizing Fast, Scalable and Reliable Scientific Computations in Grid Environments
  Y. Zhao, I. Riacu, I. Foster, M. Hategan, V. Nefedova, M. Wilde
  Progress in Grid Research, NOVA Publishers (Accepted).
  
  
• Virtual Data Language - A Typed Workflow Notation for Diversely Structured Scientific Data
  Y. Zhao, M. Wilde, I. Foster
  Workflows for e-Sciences, Springer (In Press)
  
  
• Grid-Based Computing and the Future of Neuroscience Computation
  J. Van Horn, J. Dobson, J. Woodward, M. Wilde, Y. Zhao, J. Voeckler, I. Foster
  Methods in Mind. MIT Press (In Press).
  

  Journal Paper

• Tracking Provenance in a Virtual Data Grid
  B. Clifford, I. Foster, J. Voeckler, M. Wilde, Y. Zhao
  Journal of Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience, (to appear) 2007
  
  
• The QuarkNet/Grid Collaborative Learning e-Lab
  M. Bardeen, E. Gilbert, T. Jordan, P. Nepywoda, E. Quigg, M. Wilde, Y. Zhao
  Future Generation Computer Systems, The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications, Volume 22, Issue 6, May 2006, Pages 700-708
  
  
• A Notation and System for Expressing and Executing Cleanly Typed Workflows on Messy Scientific Data pdf
  Y. Zhao, J. Dobson, I. Foster, L. Moreau, M. Wilde
  SIGMOD Record, Volume 34, Number 3, September 2005
  
  
• Virtual Data Grid Middleware Services for Data-Intensive Science pdf
  Y. Zhao, M. Wilde, I. Foster, J. Voeckler, J. Dobson, E. Glibert, T. Jordan, E. Quigg
  Journal of Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience, DOI: 10.1002/cpe.968, 2005.
  
  

  Conference Paper

• Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360 Degree Compared pdf
  I. Foster, Y. Zhao, I. Raicu, S. Lu
  Accepted to Grid Computing Environment (GCE) 2008, Co-located with SC'08.
  
  
• Scientific Workflow Systems for 21st Century, New Bottle or New Wine?
  Y. Zhao, I. Raicu, I. Foster
  Invited Paper, IEEE Workshop on Scientific Workflows 2008, co-located with IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) 2008.
  
  
• A Logic Programming Based Approach to Scientific Workflow Provenance Querying
  Y. Zhao, S. Lu
  Accepted to Second International Provenance and Archiving Workshop (IPAW2008)
  
  
• Accelerating Large-scale Data Exploration through Data Diffusion
  I. Raicu, Y. Zhao, I. Foster, A. Szalay
  To appear at International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing 2008, co-locate with ACM/IEEE International Symposium High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) 2008.
  
  
• Falkon: a Fast and Light-weight tasK executiON Framework pdf
  I. Raicu, Y. Zhao, C. Dumitrescu, I. Foster, M. Wilde
  Accepted to SC07
  
  
• A Data Diffusion Approach to Large Scale Scientific Exploration
  I. Raicu, Y. Zhao, I. Foster, A. Szalay
  Microsoft Research eScience Workshop 2007
  
  
• Swift: Fast, Reliable, Loosely Coupled Parallel Computation pdf
  Y. Zhao, M. Hategan, B. Clifford, I. Foster, G.v. Laszewski, I. Raicu, T. Stef-Praun, M. Wilde
  Accepted to SWF07, Collocated with ICWS 2007
  
  
• Accelerating Medical Research using the Swift Workflow System
  T. Stef-Praun, B. Clifford, I. Foster, U. Hasson, M. Hategan, S. Small, M. Wilde, Y. Zhao
  HealthGrid 2007
  
  
• Kickstarting Remote Applications
  J. Voeckler, G. Mehta, Y. Zhao, E. Deelman, M. Wilde
  Second International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments (GCE06), Collocated with SC06, 2006.
  
  
• Applying the Virtual Data Provenance Model pdf
  Y. Zhao, M. Wilde, I. Foster
  Proceedings of the International Provenance and Annotation Workshop 2006 (IPAW2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2006.
  
  
• On-line Evolutionary Resource Matching for Job Scheduling in Heterogeneous Grid Environments
  V. Naik, P. Garbacki, K. Kummamuru, Y. Zhao
  Second International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems 2006.
  
  
• XDTM: XML Dataset Typing and Mapping for Specifying Datasets pdf
  L. Moreau, Y. Zhao, I. Foster, J. Voeckler, M. Wilde
  European Grid Conference, 2005.
  
  
• The QuarkNet/Grid Collaborative Learning e-Lab pdf
  M. Bardeen, E. Gilbert, T. Jordan, P. Nepywoda, E. Quigg, M. Wilde, Y. Zhao
  Second International Workshop on Collaborative and Learning Applications of Grid Technology and Grid Education, CCGRID2005
  
  
• Grid Middleware Services for Virtual Data Discovery, Composition, and Integration pdf
  Y. Zhao, M. Wilde, I. Foster, J. Voeckler, T. Jordan, E. Quigg, J. Dobson
  2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing, Co-located with Middleware 2004
  
  
• GRESS - a Grid Replica Selection Service pdf
  Y. Zhao, Y. Hu
  ISCA 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems PDCS-2003
  
  
• Virtual Data in CMS Analysis pdf
  A. Arbree, P. Avery, D. Bourilkov, R. Cavanaugh, J. Rodriguez, G. Graham, M. Wilde, Y. Zhao
  Proceedings of the 2003 Conference for Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 03)
  
  
• The Virtual Data Grid: A New Model and Architecture for Data-Intensive Collaboration pdf
  Foster, I., Voeckler, J., Wilde, M., Zhao, Y.
  Conference on Innovative Data Research CIDR 2003
  
  
• Applying Chimera Virtual Data Concepts to Cluster Finding in the Sloan Sky Survey pdf
  Annis, J., Zhao, Y., Voeckler, J., Wilde, M., Kent, S. and Foster, I.
  In SC'2002, 2002
  
  
• Chimera: A Virtual Data System for Representing, Querying, and Automating Data Derivation pdf
  Foster, I., Voeckler, J., Wilde, M. and Zhao, Y.
  In 14th Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 2002.
  
  

Technical Reports

• Chiron: A Grid Portal for Virtual Data Discovery and Integration
  Y.Zhao, M. Wilde, I. Foster
  GriPhyn Technical Report TR-2004-44, July 2004
  
  
• Virtual Galaxy Clusters: An Application of the GriPhyN Virtual Data Toolkit to Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data
  Yong Zhao
  GriPhyN Technical Report TR-2002-6, June 2002
  

Presentations

• Swift - Fast, Reliable, Parallel Computation ppt
  IEEE International Workshop on Scientific Workflow, Salt Lake City, July 2007
  
  
• Virtual Data Provenance: Representation and Query ppt
  Provenance Aware Storage System Workshop, Harvard University, May 2006
  
  
• Resource Matching and Prediction in Dynamic Grid Environments
  IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, September 2005
  
  
• A Virtual Data Language and System for Scientific Workflow Specification and Execution ppt
  IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, August 2005
  
  
• A Grid Virtual Data System for Scientific Workflow Management ppt
  eScience Link-Up Meeting, San Diego Supercomputer Center, October 2004
  
  
• Virtual Data Discovery and Integration
  GriPhyn/iVDGL All-Hands Meeting, University of chicago, May 2004
  
  
• Chiron Virtual Data Portal
  GriPhyN/iVDGL All-Hands Meeting, ANL, October 2003
  
  
• Grid Computing in Data Intensive Sciences
  Quarknet SRCH Collaboration meetings, Fermilab, June 2003
  
  
• Applying Virtual Data Toolkits to Sloan Digital Sky Survey ppt
  GriPhyN/iVDGL All-Hands Meeting, ANL, April 2002