Scientific workflows with the jABC framework

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• 作者：Anna-Lena Lamprecht ; Bernhard Steffen…
• 关键词：Scientific workflows ; Model ; driven design ; Workflow modeling ; Process modeling ; Loose programming ; Automatic workflow composition
• 刊名：International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：18
• 期：6
• 页码：629-651
• 全文大小：1,759 KB
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Software Engineering
  Software Engineering, Programming and Operating Systems
  Theory of Computation
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1433-2787
• 卷排序：18

文摘

The jABC is a framework for process modelling and execution according to the XMDD (eXtreme model-driven design) paradigm, which advocates the rigorous use of user-level models in the software development process and software life cycle. We have used the jABC in the domain of scientific workflows for more than a decade now—an occasion to look back and take stock of our experiences in the field. On the one hand, we discuss results from the analysis of a sample of nearly 100 scientific workflow applications that have been implemented with the jABC. On the other hand, we reflect on our experiences and observations regarding the workflow development process with the framework. We then derive and discuss ongoing further developments and future perspectives for the framework, all with an emphasis on simplicity for end users through increased domain specificity. Concretely, we describe how the use of the PROPHETS synthesis plugin can enable a semantics-based simplification of the workflow design process, how with the jABC4 and DyWA frameworks more attention is paid to the ease of data management, and how the Cinco SCCE Meta-Tooling Suite can be used to generate tailored workflow management tools.