Introductory Papers

The following are good papers to toss at people to introduce them to various areas.

e-Science and Workflows

• Ludascher et al. Scientific Workflow Management and the Kepler System. Concurrency and Computation, 18:10, 2006.

Semantic Web

• Horrocks. Ontologies and the Semantic Web. Communications of the ACM, 51:12, 2008.
• D. Nardi, R. J. Brachman. An Introduction to Description Logics. In the Description Logic Handbook (Chap. 1), edited by F. Baader, D. Calvanese, D.L. McGuinness, D. Nardi, P.F. Patel-Schneider, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002, pgs. 5--44.
• Hitzler, et al.. OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer. W3C, 2009.

Mobile Ad Hoc Networking

• Burbank, et al. Key Challenges of Military Tactical Networking and the Elusive Promise of MANET Technology. IEEE Communications, November, 2006.