Workflow bus for e-Science An infrastructure for aggregating workflow systems Contact: dr. Zhiming Zhao Zhiming AT science dot uva dot nl University of Amsterdam Research is sponsored by VL-e, UvA
	Introduction		Publications	Presentations	Events	Software	Sponsors
Introduction		In e-Science, meaningful experiment processes and workflow engines emerge as important scientific resources. A complex experiment often involves services and processes developed in different scientific domains. Aggregating different workflows into one meta workflow avoids unnecessary rewriting of experiment processes and thus improves the reuse efficiency. A workflow bus architecture for enabling large scale cooperation between scientists in different e-Science domains is proposed (Zhao, IEEE SWF, 07).
Publications		Z. Zhao, A. Belloum, C. Laat, P. Adriaans and B. Hertzberger, Distributed execution of aggregated multi domain workflows using an agent framework, in Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. Web Service, IEEE Computer Society, July 9th, 2007 [pdf] Z. Zhao, A. Belloum, C. Laat, P. Adriaans and B. Hertzberger, Using Jade agent framework to prototype an e-Science workflow bus, in Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. Cluster Computing and the Grid, IEEE Computer Society, May 14th, 2007 [pdf] Z. Zhao, S. Booms, A. Belloum, C. de Laat and L.O. Hertzberger, VLE-WFBus: A Scientific Workflow Bus for Multi e-Science Domains, 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, Amsterdam, 2006, Proceedings, p. 11 [pdf] Z. Zhao, D. van Albada and P. Sloot, Rapid prototyping of complex interactive simulation systems, In: IEEE Computer Society 2005, 10th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems 2005 (ICECCS2005), 16-20 June 2005, Shanghai, China, Proceedings, pp. 366-375 [pdf] Z. Zhao, A.S.Z. Belloum, P.M.A. Sloot and L.O. Hertzberger, Agent technology and generic workflow management in an e-Science environment, In: Grid and Cooperative Computing - GCC 2005: 4th International Conference, Beijing, China, November 30 - December 3, 2005, Proceedings, (Eds. H. Zhuge and G. C. Fox), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3795, pp. 480-485, Springer, November 2005. [pdf] Z. Zhao, A. Belloum, P. Sloot and L.O. Hertzberger, Agent technology and scientific workflow management in an e-Science environment, the 17th IEEE international conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, In: Proceedings of the 17th IEEE international conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05), Hongkong, China, Nov. 14 ~ 16, pp. 19-23 [pdf] Z. Zhao, A.S.Z. Belloum, A. Wibisono, F. Terpstra, P.T. de Boer, P.M.A. Sloot and L.O. Hertzberger, Scientific workflow management: between generality and applicability, In: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on quality software, Melbourne, Australia, Sep. 19 -20, 2005, pp. 357-364 [pdf] Z. Zhao, A.S.Z. Belloum, H. Yakali, P.M.A. Sloot and L.O. Hertzberger, Dynamic workflow in a Grid enabled Problem Solving Environment, In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer and Information technology (CIT2005), pp. 339-345, Shanghai, China, Sep. 21-23, 2005 [pdf]
Presentations		Talk at NBIC, Utrecht, 2007 Talk at IEEE SWF 2007, Salt lake city, 2007, Talk at IEEE CCGrid Agent based Grid Computing, Brazil, 2007, Scientific workflows in e-Science, October 2006, Elsevier workshop VL-e rapid prototyping June, 2006 meeting. SNE June 2006, meeting
Events		1. Int’l workshop on workflow systems in e-Science (WSES 08). 2. Special session on Workflow Systems in e-Science in Int’l journal of Future Generation Computer System (details). 3. Int’l workshop on scientific workflows and business workflow standards in e-Science (SWBES). 4. Int’l workshop on scientific workflow (SWF 2007)
Software		Demo (Install | interactive connector) Contact Zhiming Zhao for details.
Sponsors
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