Advertisement
Published in:
2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Experiment Line: Software Reuse in Scientific Workflows
Authors : Eduardo Ogasawara, Carlos Paulino, Leonardo Murta, Cláudia Werner, Marta Mattoso
Published in: Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.
Select sections of text to find matching patents with Artificial Intelligence. powered by
Select sections of text to find additional relevant content using AI-assisted search. powered by
Over the last years, scientists have been using scientific workflows to build computer simulations to support the development of new theories. Due to the increasing use of scientific workflows in production environments, the composition of workflows and their executions can no longer be performed in an ad-hoc manner. Although current scientific workflow management systems support the execution of workflows, they present limitations regarding the composition of workflows when it comes to using different levels of abstractions. This paper introduces the concept of experiment line which is a systematic approach for the composition of scientific workflows that represents an in-silico experiment. An experiment line is inspired on the software engineering reuse discipline and allows the composition of scientific workflows at different levels of abstractions, which characterizes both the in-silico experiment and different workflow variations that are related to the experiment.