# Funding

Kiso is developed at the USC Information Sciences Institute with support from academic grants and research funding.

## Grant support

Kiso development is supported by:

- **National Science Foundation (NSF)** — Award [2403051](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2403051), "OAC Core: Edge to Cloud Workflows: Advancing Workflow Management in the Computing Continuum"

## Acknowledging Kiso in your work

If you use Kiso in research that leads to a publication, please acknowledge the NSF funding using the following text:

> This work used Kiso, which is supported by the National Science Foundation under award 2403051.

For citing Kiso in a research paper, see [Citing Kiso](citing.md) for ready-to-use citation blocks.

## Acknowledging specific testbeds

If your experiment used FABRIC or Chameleon resources, those testbeds have their own acknowledgement requirements:

**FABRIC**: Acknowledge the NSF FABRIC Testbed (NSF award #2330891). See the full requirements at [learn.fabric-testbed.net](https://learn.fabric-testbed.net).

**Chameleon**: See the Chameleon acknowledgement requirements at [chameleoncloud.org](https://chameleoncloud.org/).

## Acknowledgements

Kiso builds on [EnOSlib](https://discovery.gitlabpages.inria.fr/enoslib/), an open-source library for experiment-driven research in distributed computing. The Kiso team thanks Baptiste Jonglez and Matthieu Simonin of the EnOSlib project for their assistance and willingness to accept upstream contributions.

## See also

- [Citing Kiso](citing.md) — citation information for research papers
- [Contact](contact.md) — reach the team for funding-related enquiries