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Model-as-you-go: An Approach for an Advanced Infrastructure for Scientific Workflows

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Most of the existing scientific workflow systems rely on proprietary concepts and workflow languages. We are convinced that the conventional workflow technology that is established in business scenarios for years is also beneficial for scientists and scientific applications. We are therefore working on a scientific workflow system based on business workflow concepts and technologies. The system offers advanced flexibility features to scientists in order to support them in creating workflows in an explorative manner and to increase robustness of scientific applications. We named the approach Model-as-you-go because it enables users to model and execute workflows in an iterative process that eventually results in a complete scientific workflow. In this paper, we present main ingredients of Model-as-you-go, show how existing workflow concepts have to be extended in order to cover the requirements of scientists, discuss the application of the concepts to BPEL, and introduce the current prototype of the system.

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Sonntag, M., Karastoyanova, D. Model-as-you-go: An Approach for an Advanced Infrastructure for Scientific Workflows. J Grid Computing 11, 553–583 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-013-9268-1

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