%0 Journal Article %1 1507922 %A McPhillips, Timothy %A Bowers, Shawn %A Zinn, Daniel %A Ludäscher, Bertram %C Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands %D 2009 %I Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. %J Future Gener. Comput. Syst. %K comad dakspub keplerworkflow workflow %N 5 %P 541--551 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2008.06.013 %T Scientific workflow design for mere mortals %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1507767.1507922 %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{1507922, 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 = {2009-08-03T03:16:49.000+0200}, address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands}, author = {McPhillips, Timothy and Bowers, Shawn and Zinn, Daniel and Lud\"{a}scher, Bertram}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24ca1fb35d00f2795239c6acf5e30742c/ludaesch}, description = {Scientific workflow design for mere mortals}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2008.06.013}, interhash = {ca3c69b1be6303d1fa97e4b52fe5d6c3}, intrahash = {4ca1fb35d00f2795239c6acf5e30742c}, issn = {0167-739X}, journal = {Future Gener. Comput. Syst.}, keywords = {comad dakspub keplerworkflow workflow}, number = 5, pages = {541--551}, publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.}, timestamp = {2009-08-04T21:22:13.000+0200}, title = {Scientific workflow design for mere mortals}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1507767.1507922}, volume = 25, year = 2009 }