Title
Using Workflow Medleys to Streamline Exploratory Tasks
Abstract
To analyze and understand the growing wealth of scientific data, complex workflows need to be assembled, often requiring the combination of loosely-coupled resources, specialized libraries, distributed computing infrastructure, and Web services. However, constructing these workflows is a non-trivial task, especially for users who do not have programming expertise. This problem is compounded for exploratory tasks, where the workflows need to be iteratively refined. In this paper, we introduce workflow medleys , a new approach for manipulating collections of workflows. We propose a workflow manipulation language that includes operations that are common in exploratory tasks and present a visual interface designed for this language. We briefly discuss how medleys have been applied in two (real) applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02279-1_23
SSDBM
Keywords
Field
DocType
exploratory task,complex workflows,workflow manipulation language,workflow medleys,scientific data,web service,streamline exploratory tasks,programming expertise,non-trivial task,new approach,loosely-coupled resource,workflow medley,distributed computing
Business process management,Data mining,World Wide Web,Visual interface,Computer science,Windows Workflow Foundation,Business Process Execution Language,Distributed computing infrastructure,Web service,Workflow,Workflow management system,Database
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5566
0302-9743
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
11
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emanuele Santos193952.64
David Koop270242.47
Huy T. Vo3103561.10
Erik Anderson41279.55
Juliana Freire53956270.89
Cláudio T. Silva65054290.90