Gateway Science

HealthGrid Applications and Technologies Meet Science Gateways for Life Sciences

The fundamental principles of the scientific method are essential for enhancing perspective, increasing productivity, and stimulating innovation. These principles include deductive and inductive logic, probability, parsimony and hypothesis testing, as well as science's presuppositions, limitations, ethics and bold claims of rationality and truth. The examples and case studies drawn upon in this book span the physical, biological and social sciences; include applications in agriculture, engineering and medicine; and also explore science's interrelationships with disciplines in the humanities such as philosophy and law. Informed by position papers on science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences and National Science Foundation, this book aligns with a distinctively mainstream vision of science. It is an ideal resource for anyone undertaking a systematic study of scientific method for the first time, from undergraduates to professionals in both the sciences and the humanities.

High Performance Computer Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Supercomputing, ISUM 2015, held in México, Mexico, in March 2015. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on perspectives in supercomputer infrastructure and applications; parallel algorithms and optimization; HPC applications and simulations;