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A Reference Architecture for Scientific Workflow Management Systems and the VIEW SOA Solution
January-March 2009 (vol. 2 no. 1)
pp. 79-92
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Cui Lin, Shiyong Lu, Xubo Fei, Artem Chebotko, Darshan Pai, Zhaoqiang Lai, Farshad Fotouhi, Jing Hua, "A Reference Architecture for Scientific Workflow Management Systems and the VIEW SOA Solution," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 79-92, January-March, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TSC.2009.4,
author = {Cui Lin and Shiyong Lu and Xubo Fei and Artem Chebotko and Darshan Pai and Zhaoqiang Lai and Farshad Fotouhi and Jing Hua},
title = {A Reference Architecture for Scientific Workflow Management Systems and the VIEW SOA Solution},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Services Computing},
volume = {2},
number = {1},
issn = {1939-1374},
year = {2009},
pages = {79-92},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSC.2009.4},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
TI - A Reference Architecture for Scientific Workflow Management Systems and the VIEW SOA Solution
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SN - 1939-1374
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EPD - 79-92
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A1 - Shiyong Lu,
A1 - Xubo Fei,
A1 - Artem Chebotko,
A1 - Darshan Pai,
A1 - Zhaoqiang Lai,
A1 - Farshad Fotouhi,
A1 - Jing Hua,
PY - 2009
KW - Reference architecture
KW - scientific workflows
KW - scientific workflow management system
KW - SOA
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JA - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
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Cui Lin, Wayne State University, Detroit
Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, Detroit
Xubo Fei, Wayne State University, Detroit
Artem Chebotko, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg
Darshan Pai, Wayne State University, Detroit
Zhaoqiang Lai, Wayne State University, Detroit
Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, Detroit
Jing Hua, Wayne State University, Detroit
Scientific workflows have recently emerged as a new paradigm for scientists to formalize and structure complex and distributed scientific processes to enable and accelerate many scientific discoveries. In contrast to business workflows, which are typically control flow oriented, scientific workflows tend to be dataflow oriented, introducing a new set of requirements for system development. These requirements demand a new architectural design for scientific workflow management systems (SWFMSs). Although several SWFMSs have been developed that provide much experience for future research and development, a study from an architectural perspective is still missing. The main contributions of this paper are: 1) based on a comprehensive survey of the literature and identification of key requirements for SWFMSs, we propose the first reference architecture for SWFMSs; 2) according to the reference architecture, we further propose a service-oriented architecture for View (a VIsual sciEntific Workflow management system); 3) we implemented View to validate the feasibility of the proposed architectures; and 4) we present a View-based scientific workflow application system (SWFAS), called FiberFlow, to showcase the application of our View system.

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Index Terms:
Reference architecture, scientific workflows, scientific workflow management system, SOA, View.
Citation:
Cui Lin, Shiyong Lu, Xubo Fei, Artem Chebotko, Darshan Pai, Zhaoqiang Lai, Farshad Fotouhi, Jing Hua, "A Reference Architecture for Scientific Workflow Management Systems and the VIEW SOA Solution," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 79-92, Jan.-March 2009, doi:10.1109/TSC.2009.4
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