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Overview

Marlon Pierce is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of computer science and decision sciences, with particular emphasis on subfields such as computer networks and communications, information systems and management, geophysics, and global and planetary change.

Their work addresses multiple scientific topics, including scientific computing and data management, distributed and parallel computing systems, advanced data storage technologies, earthquake and tectonic studies, research data management practices, flood risk assessment and management, and GNSS positioning and interference.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Seismological Research Letters

They have collaborated extensively with other researchers, notably Suresh Marru, Dimuthu Wannipurage, Eroma Abeysinghe, Isuru Ranawaka, and Jun Wang.

Several recent papers by Marlon Pierce illustrate the scope of their research:

  • "Jetstream2: Accelerating cloud computing via Jetstream," 2021, Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
  • "Automated Estimation and Tools to Extract Positions, Velocities, Breaks, and Seasonal Terms From Daily GNSS Measurements: Illuminating Nonlinear Salton Trough Deformation," 2020, Earth and Space Science
  • "Ground Deformation Data from GEER Investigations of Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence," 2020, Seismological Research Letters
  • "Clustering Analysis Methods for GNSS Observations: A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying California's Major Faults," 2021, Earth and Space Science
  • "Custos: Security Middleware for Science Gateways," 2020, Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing

In addition to articles, Marlon Pierce has contributed to book publications, including the title "Critical Infrastructure - Modern Approach and New Developments," published by IntechOpen in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Apache airavata: a framework for distributed applications and computational workflows

    Suresh Marru;Lahiru Gunathilake;Chathura Herath;Patanachai Tangchaisin

  • Integrating AJAX Approach into GIS Visualization Web Services

    A. Sayar;M. Pierce;G. Fox

  • Science gateways today and tomorrow: positive perspectives of nearly 5000 members of the research community

    Katherine A. Lawrence;Michael G. Zentner;Nancy Wilkins-Diehr;Julie A. Wernert

  • The Open Grid Computing Environments collaboration: portlets and services for science gateways

    Jay Alameda;Marcus Christie;Geoffrey C. Fox;Joe Futrelle

  • Community Science Exemplars in SEAGrid Science Gateway

    Sudhakar Pamidighantam;Supun Nakandala;Eroma Abeysinghe;Chathuri Wimalasena

  • Interoperable Web Services for Computational Portals

    Marlon Pierce;Geoffrey Fox;Choonhan Youn;Steve Mock

  • Apache Airavata: Design and Directions of a Science Gateway Framework

    Marlon Pierce;Suresh Marru;Lahiru Gunathilake;Thejaka Amila Kanewala

  • A Web based Conversational Case-Based Recommender System for Ontology aided Metadata Discovery

    Mehmet S. Aktas;Marlon Pierce;Geoffrey C. Fox;David Leake

  • Apache Airavata: design and directions of a science gateway framework

    Marlon E. Pierce;Suresh Marru;Lahiru Gunathilake;Don Kushan Wijeratne

  • Building Grid Portal Applications From a Web Service Component Architecture

    D. Gannon;J. Alameda;O. Chipara;M. Christie

  • Grid portal architectures for scientific applications

    M P Thomas;J Burruss;L Cinquini;G Fox

  • Fault tolerant high performance Information Services for dynamic collections of Grid and Web services

    Mehmet S. Aktas;Geoffrey C. Fox;Marlon Pierce

  • Jetstream2: Accelerating cloud computing via Jetstream

    David Y. Hancock;Jeremy Fischer;John Michael Lowe;Winona Snapp-Childs

  • A Framework for Secure End-to-End Delivery of Messages in Publish/Subscribe Systems

    S. Pallickara;M. Pierce;H. Gadgil;G. Fox

  • Peer-to-Peer Grids

    Geoffrey Fox;Dennis Gannon;Sung‐Hoon Ko;Sangmi Lee;Sangmi Lee

  • Web service infrastructure for chemoinformatics.

    Xiao Dong;Kevin E. Gilbert;Rajarshi Guha;Randy W. Heiland

  • SERVOGrid Complexity Computational Environments (CCE) Integrated Performance Analysis

    G. Aydin;M. S. Aktas;G. C. Fox;H. Gadgil

  • iSERVO: Implementing the International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory by Integrating Computational Grid and Geographical Information Web Services

    Mehmet Aktas;Galip Aydin;Andrea Donnellan;Geoffrey Fox

  • VLab: collaborative Grid services and portals to support computational material science

    Mehmet A. Nacar;Mehmet S. Aktas;Marlon E. Pierce;Zhenyu Lu

  • Community Organizations: Changing the Culture in Which Research Software Is Developed and Sustained

    Daniel S. Katz;Lois Curfman McInnes;David E. Bernholdt;Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

  • Building the PolarGrid portal using web 2.0 and OpenSocial

    Zhenhua Guo;Raminderjeet Singh;Marlon Pierce

  • Information Services for Dynamically Assembled Semantic Grids

    M.S. Aktas;G.C. Fox;M. Pierce

  • An Overview of the XSEDE Extended Collaborative Support Program

    Nancy Wilkins-Diehr;Sergiu Sanielevici;Jay Alameda;John Cazes

  • The QuakeSim Project: Web Services for Managing Geophysical Data and Applications

    Marlon E. Pierce;Geoffrey C. Fox;Mehmet S. Aktas;Galip Aydin

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey C. Fox
Geoffrey C. Fox University of Virginia
Andrea Donnellan
Andrea Donnellan Jet Propulsion Lab
John B. Rundle
John B. Rundle University of California, Davis
Dennis Gannon
Dennis Gannon Indiana University
Borries Demeler
Borries Demeler University of Lethbridge
Beth Plale
Beth Plale Indiana University
Kristy F. Tiampo
Kristy F. Tiampo University of Colorado Boulder
David A. Yuen
David A. Yuen Columbia University
Guy Schumann
Guy Schumann University of Bristol
Yehuda Bock
Yehuda Bock University of California, San Diego

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