TY - JOUR T1 - Generating web-based user interfaces for computational science JF - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Y1 - 2011 A1 - van Hemert, J. A1 - Koetsier, J. A1 - Torterolo, L. A1 - Porro, I. A1 - Melato, M. A1 - Barbera, R. AB - Scientific gateways in the form of web portals are becoming the popular approach to share knowledge and resources around a topic in a community of researchers. Unfortunately, the development of web portals is expensive and requires specialists skills. Commercial and more generic web portals have a much larger user base and can afford this kind of development. Here we present two solutions that address this problem in the area of portals for scientific computing; both take the same approach. The whole process of designing, delivering and maintaining a portal can be made more cost-effective by generating a portal from a description rather than programming in the traditional sense. We show four successful use cases to show how this process works and the results it can deliver. PB - Wiley VL - 23 ER -