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Orchestrating e-Science with the Workflow Paradigm: Task-Based Scientific Workflow Modeling and Executing

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e-Science usually involves a great number of data sets, computing resources, and large teams managed and developed by research laboratories, universities, or governments. Science processes, if deployed in the workflow forms, can be managed more effectively and executed more automatically. Scientific workflows have therefore emerged and been adopted as a paradigm to organize and orchestrate activities in e-Science processes. Differing with workflows applied in the business world, however, scientific workflows need to take account of specific characteristics of science processes and make corresponding changes to accommodate those specific characteristics. A task-based scientific workflow modeling and executing approach is therefore proposed in this chapter for orchestrating e-Science with the workflow paradigm. Besides, this chapter also discusses some related work in the scientific workflow field.

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Acknowledgments

This chapter is partly supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant NCET-06-0440, Foundation of Jiangsu Educational Committee under Grant No. 08KJD520024, and Foundation of NJUPT under Grant No. NY207138. Part of this chapter is also cited from our previous research work.

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  1. College of Computer, Institute of Computer Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210003, China

    Xiping Liu

  2. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210009, China

    Wanchun Dou

  3. Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Jinjun Chen

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Liu, X., Dou, W., Chen, J. (2011). Orchestrating e-Science with the Workflow Paradigm: Task-Based Scientific Workflow Modeling and Executing. In: Yang, X., Wang, L., Jie, W. (eds) Guide to e-Science. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-439-5_15

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