Scientific Workflows Programming, Optimization, and Synthesis with ASKALON and AWDL /

• Main Authors: Qin, Jun (Author), Fahringer, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Special purpose computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Computer Communication Networks.; Computer Applications.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Creating scientific workflow applications is a very challenging task due to the complexity of the distributed computing environments involved, the complex control and data flow requirements of scientific applications, and the lack of high-level languages and tools support. Particularly, sophisticate...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Overview
• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• Part II Programming
• Abstract Workflow Description Language (AWDL)
• Workflow Modularization
• UML Based Scientific Workflow Modeling
• Part III Optimization
• Collection Oriented Data Flow Support for Scientific Workflows
• Part IV Synthesis
• Semantic-Based Scientific Workflow Composition
• Automatic Scientific Workflow Composition
• Part V Related Work
• Related Work
• Part VI Conclusions
• Conclusions
• Part VII Appendices
• Acronyms
• Symbols.