Title
Information flow analysis of scientific workflows
Abstract
Recently, scientific workflows have emerged as a platform for automating and accelerating data processing and data sharing in scientific communities. Many scientific workflows have been developed for collaborative research projects that involve a number of geographically distributed organizations. Sharing of data and computation across organizations in different administrative domains is essential in such a collaborative environment. Because of the competitive nature of scientific research, it is important to ensure that sensitive information in scientific workflows can be accessed by and propagated to only authorized parties. To address this problem, we present techniques for analyzing how information propagates in scientific workflows. We also present algorithms for incrementally analyzing how information propagates upon every change to an existing scientific workflow.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.jcss.2009.11.002
J. Comput. Syst. Sci.
Keywords
Field
DocType
scientific workflows,scientific community,scientific research,information flow analysis,sensitive information,data processing,collaborative environment,hierarchical state machines,incrementally analyzing,collaborative research project,information propagates,existing scientific workflow,information flow,state machine
Data science,Information flow (information theory),Data processing,Computer science,Data sharing,Information sensitivity,Workflow,Scientific method
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
76
6
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.45
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ping Yang15210.62
Lu, Shiyong22022126.17
Mikhail I. Gofman31498.98
Zijiang Yang41308.83