Entries on blog are somewhat rare these days and main reason is that I am on the road a lot.Since
most of my weekend was spent working and networking I decided to take it easy or should i say easier today.
Our main objective for the rest of the project is to try to disseminate our results and in addition
try to get as many people as possible from within the eScience community to use our infrastructure.
For this reason I am visiting Oxford this week along with Paul. W. Through our contacts and mutual
efforts we found out about a number of projects including the Integrated Biology project (which I
knew of) which deals with large medical data sets to enable modelling of vital organs. The actual
scenarios regarding the data are similar to the chemical development data sets affiliated with
each step of the GOLD lifecycle. The potential of having the GOLD architecture being evaluated (more
specifically the GOLD security work) against other eScience project is both encouraging and exciting.
Another piece of work I have been recently involved, has been the evaluation of SecPAL which is a very
novel and rather interesting technology on Access Control. Collegues from MSR and Microsoft Redmond
introduced me to this technology for describing A.C. Policies. The clarity of its semantics makes the
Management of issues such as delegation easy and hence attractive. Will post a report on it soon....
After the recent developments, our next step is to arrange to meet the middleware people behind the IB project and talk to them about GOLD. Will update again soon...