Scientific workflow management : between generality and applicability

• Main Authors: Zhao, Zhiming, Belloum, Adam, Wibisono, Adianto, Terpstra, Frank, Boer, Piter T. de, Hertzberger, Bob, Sloot, Peter M. A.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96188; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10152
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In a Problem Solving Environment (PSE), a Scientific Workflow Management System (SWMS) provides a meta environment for managing activities and data in scientific experiments, for prototyping experimental computing systems and for orchestrating the runtime system behaviour. The realisation of a SWMS is often driven by domain specific applications and thus is at application level. Investigating the common characteristics in domain specific SWMSs and encapsulating them in a generic framework improve the reusability of the SWMS components and reduce the costs for introducing an e-Science framework in a new science domain. In this position paper, we present our research in an ongoing project: Virtual Laboratory for e-Science (VLe). In the VL-e project, we are building a generic e-Science framework which will support scientists from different domains to share their knowledge and to perform specific experiments. We summarise the lessons we have learned from a previous VL-e implementation, and discuss the plan for improving the quality of the SWMS support in the VL-e framework.