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Actor Petri net Model: toward Suitable and Flexible Level Representation of Scientific Workflows

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Applications of scientific workflows are going to be more widespread and important to our living and lives. The intrinsic characteristics of scientific workflows are data- and computing-intensive, heterogeneous data representation and distributed execution environments. Scientists use different equipment to re- trieve source data by monitoring objects and then store or process on many differ- ent workstations. Actor Petri net Model (APnM) helps develop scientific work- flows effectively and efficiently within collaboration and cooperation work mode. Scientific workflow environments based on APnM can help scientists pay close attention to functional components development, and choose flexible mechanisms on error management, transaction and exception management, and priority pro- cessing. Scientific workflows represented based on APnM can be operated both on design and run time to support trial and error development. From the perspec- tive of software engineering, it is a suitable level of indirection to resolve the development, testing, and simulation complexity of scientific workflows.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Nanshan Du & Qing Li

  2. School of Computer, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 430072

    Nanshan Du & Yiwen Liang

  3. Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China, 321004

    Farong Zhong

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  1. , EEE Dept., Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London, SW72BT, United Kingdom

    Erol Gelenbe

  2. , EEE Dept., Imperial College, Exhibition Rd., London, SW72AZ, United Kingdom

    Ricardo Lent

  3. , EEE Dept., Imperial College, Exhibition Rd., London, SW72AZ, United Kingdom

    Georgia Sakellari

  4. , School of Biomedical Eng., Sci. and Heal, Drexel University, Bossone 702, 3120 Market Street, Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA

    Ahmet Sacan

  5. , Dept. of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 06531, Turkey

    Hakki Toroslu

  6. Fac. Engineering, Dept. Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University - METU, Ankara, 06531, Turkey

    Adnan Yazici

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Du, N., Li, Q., Liang, Y., Zhong, F. (2011). Actor Petri net Model: toward Suitable and Flexible Level Representation of Scientific Workflows. In: Gelenbe, E., Lent, R., Sakellari, G., Sacan, A., Toroslu, H., Yazici, A. (eds) Computer and Information Sciences. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9794-1_16

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