%0 Journal Article %1 McPhillips2008Design %A McPhillips, Timothy %A Bowers, Shawn %A Zinn, Daniel %A Ludaescher, Bertram %D 2008 %J Future Generation Computer Systems %K dakspub %N 5 %P 541-551 %T Scientific workflow design for mere mortals %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2008.06.013 %V 25 %X Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in research and development of scientific workflow systems. These systems promise to make scientists more productive by automating data-driven and compute-intensive analyses. Despite many early achievements, the long-term success of scientific workflow technology critically depends on making these systems useable by "mere mortals", i.e.,�scientists who have a very good idea of the analysis methods they wish to assemble, but who are neither software developers nor scripting-language experts. With these users in mind, we identify a set of desiderata for scientific workflow systems crucial for enabling scientists to model and design the workflows they wish to automate themselves. As a first step towards meeting these requirements, we also show how the collection-oriented modeling and design (comad) approach for scientific workflows, implemented within the Kepler system, can help provide these critical, design-oriented capabilities to scientists.

@article{McPhillips2008Design, abstract = {Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in research and development of scientific workflow systems. These systems promise to make scientists more productive by automating data-driven and compute-intensive analyses. Despite many early achievements, the long-term success of scientific workflow technology critically depends on making these systems useable by "mere mortals", i.e.,�scientists who have a very good idea of the analysis methods they wish to assemble, but who are neither software developers nor scripting-language experts. With these users in mind, we identify a set of desiderata for scientific workflow systems crucial for enabling scientists to model and design the workflows they wish to automate themselves. As a first step towards meeting these requirements, we also show how the collection-oriented modeling and design (comad) approach for scientific workflows, implemented within the Kepler system, can help provide these critical, design-oriented capabilities to scientists.}, added-at = {2009-09-04T23:07:31.000+0200}, author = {McPhillips, Timothy and Bowers, Shawn and Zinn, Daniel and Ludaescher, Bertram}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/270e0679c40af52ac905f95e6d9137d1b/daks}, interhash = {5e5b98345cbb29d0a89ba5bf3aa1437c}, intrahash = {70e0679c40af52ac905f95e6d9137d1b}, journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems}, keywords = {dakspub}, number = 5, pages = {541-551}, timestamp = {2009-09-04T23:07:32.000+0200}, title = {Scientific workflow design for mere mortals}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2008.06.013}, volume = 25, year = 2008 }