Workflows for e-science : scientific workflows for grids / Ian J. Taylor ... [and others], eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Ian J., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Data processing--Management.

Science.

Research--Data processing--Management.

Research.

Computational grids (Computer systems).

Workflow--Data processing.

Workflow.

Research--Data processing.

Management.

Science--Data processing.

Physical Description:

xxi, 523 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Springer, [2007]

Summary:

Scientific Workflow has seen massive growth in recent years as science becomes increasingly reliant on the analysis of massive data sets and the use of distributed resources. The workflow programming paradigm is seen as a means of managing the complexity in defining the analysis, executing the necessary computations on distributed resources, collecting information about the analysis results, and providing means to record and reproduce the scientific analysis.

Workflows for e-Science presents an overview of the current state of the art in the field. It brings together research from many leading computer scientists in the workflow area and provides real world examples from domain scientists actively involved in e-Science. The computer science topics addressed in the book provide a broad overview of active research focusing on the areas of workflow representations and process models, component and service-based workflows, standardization efforts, workflow frameworks and tools, and problem solving environments and portals.

The topics covered represent a broad range of scientific workflow and will be of interest to a wide range of computer science researchers, domain scientists interested in applying workflow technologies in their work, and engineers wanting to develop workflow systems and tools. As such Workflows for e-Science is an invaluable resource for potential or existing users of workflow technologies and a benchmark for developers and researchers.

Contents:

2 Scientific versus Business Workflows / Roger Barga, Dennis Gannon 9

Part I Application and User Perspective

3 Generating Complex Astronomy Workflows / G. Bruce Berriman, Ewa Deelman, John Good, Joseph C. Jacob, Daniel S. Katz, Anastasia C. Laity, Thomas A. Prince, Gurmeet Singh, Mei-Hui Su 19

4 A Case Study on the Use of Workflow Technologies for Scientific Analysis: Gravitational Wave Data Analysis / Duncan A. Brown, Patrick R. Brady, Alexander Dietz, Junwei Cao, Ben Johnson, John McNabb 39

5 Workflows in Pulsar Astronomy / John Brooke, Stephen Pickles, Paul Carr, Michael Kramer 60

6 Workflow and Biodiversity e-Science / Andrew C. Jones 80

7 Ecological Niche Modeling Using the Kepler Workflow System / Deana D. Pennington, Dan Higgins, A. Townsend Peterson, Matthew B. Jones, Bertram Ludascher, Shawn Bowers 91

8 Case Studies on the Use of Workflow Technologies for Scientific Analysis: The Biomedical Informatics Research Network and the Telescience Project / Abel W. Lin, Steven T. Peltier, Jeffrey S. Grethe, Mark H. Ellisman 109

9 Dynamic, Adaptive Workflows for Mesoscale Meteorology / Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Suresh Marru, Gopi Kandaswamy, Yogesh Simmhan, Satoshi Shirasuna 126

10 SCEC CyberShake Workflows-Automating Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis Calculations / Philip Maechling, Ewa Deelman, Li Zhao, Robert Graves, Gaurang Mehta, Nitin Gupta, John Mehringer, Carl Kesselman, Scott Callaghan, David Okaya, Hunter Francoeur, Vipin Gupta, Yifeng Cui, Karan Vahi, Thomas Jordan, Edward Field 143

Part II Workflow Representation and Common Structure

11 Control- Versus Data-Driven Workflows / Matthew Shields 167

12 Component Architectures and Services: From Application Construction to Scientific Workflows / Dennis Gannon 174

13 Petri Nets / Andreas Hoheisel, Martin Alt 190

14 Adapting BPEL to Scientific Workflows / Aleksander Slominski 208

15 Protocol-Based Integration Using SSDL and [pi]-Calculus / Simon Woodman, Savas Parastatidis, Jim Webber 227

16 Workflow Composition: Semantic Representations for Flexible Automation / Yolanda Gil 244

17 Virtual Data Language: A Typed Workflow Notation for Diversely Structured Scientific Data / Yong Zhao, Michael Wilde, Ian Foster 258

Part III Frameworks and Tools: Workflow Generation, Refinement, and Execution

18 Workflow-Level Parametric Study Support by MOTEUR and the P-GRADE Portal / Tristan Glatard, Gergely Sipos, Johan Montagnat, Zoltan Farkas, Peter Kacsuk 279

19 Taverna/[superscript my]Grid: Aligning a Workflow System with the Life Sciences Community / Tom Oinn, Peter Li, Douglas B. Kell, Carole Goble, Antoon Goderis, Mark Greenwood, Duncan Hull, Robert Stevens, Daniele Turi, Jun Zhao 300

20 The Triana Workflow Environment: Architecture and Applications / Ian Taylor, Matthew Shields, Ian Wang, Andrew Harrison 320

21 Java CoG Kit Workflow / Gregor von Laszewski, Mihael Hategan, Deepti Kodeboyina 340

22 Workflow Management in Condor / Peter Couvares, Tevfik Kosar, Alain Roy, Jeff Weber, Kent Wenger 357

23 Pegasus: Mapping Large-Scale Workflows to Distributed Resources / Ewa Deelman, Gaurang Mehta, Gurmeet Singh, Mei-Hui Su, Karan Vahi 376

24 ICENI / A. Stephen M[superscript c]Cough, William Lee, Jeremy Cohen, Eleftheria Katsiri, John Darlington 395

25 Expressing Workflow in the Cactus Framework / Tom Goodale 416

26 Sedna: A BPEL-Based Environment for Visual Scientific Workflow Modeling / Bruno Wassermann, Wolfgang Emmerich, Ben Butchart, Nick Cameron, Liang Chen, Jignesh Patel 428

27 ASKALON: A Development and Grid Computing Environment for Scientific Workflows / Thomas Fahringer, Radu Prodan, Rubing Duan, Jurgen Hofer, Farrukh Nadeem, Francesco Nerieri, Stefan Podlipnig, Jun Qin, Mumtaz Siddiqui, Hong-Linh Truong, Alex Villazon, Marek Wieczorek 450

Part IV Future Requirements

Looking into the Future of Workflows: The Challenges Ahead / Ewa Deelman 475.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [483]-513) and index.

ISBN:

1846285194

9781846285196

OCLC:

71285566