TY - GEN
T1 - Flows and views for scalable scientific process integration
AU - Li, Qing
AU - Shan, Zhe
AU - Hung, Patrick C.K.
AU - Chiu, Dickson K.W.
AU - Cheung, S. C.
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - Workflow technology has recently been employed in scientific applications because of their ever-increasing complexities across multiple organizations, institutes, research labs, or units over the Internet and Intranet. In this paper, we propose a methodology for the decomposition of complex scientific process requirements into different types of elementary flows such as control, data, exception, semantics, and security. Based on that, we can determine the subset of each type of flows (i.e., flow views) necessary and the related requirements for the interactions with each type of collaboration partners in the process integration. These subsets collectively constitute a process view, based on which interactions can be systematically designed, integrated and managed in a scalable way. We show with a case study in a scientific research environment to demonstrate our approach. We further illustrate how these flows can be implemented with various contemporary Web services technologies.
AB - Workflow technology has recently been employed in scientific applications because of their ever-increasing complexities across multiple organizations, institutes, research labs, or units over the Internet and Intranet. In this paper, we propose a methodology for the decomposition of complex scientific process requirements into different types of elementary flows such as control, data, exception, semantics, and security. Based on that, we can determine the subset of each type of flows (i.e., flow views) necessary and the related requirements for the interactions with each type of collaboration partners in the process integration. These subsets collectively constitute a process view, based on which interactions can be systematically designed, integrated and managed in a scalable way. We show with a case study in a scientific research environment to demonstrate our approach. We further illustrate how these flows can be implemented with various contemporary Web services technologies.
KW - Cross-organizational process view
KW - Exceptions
KW - Flows
KW - Web services
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34547298692&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1146847.1146877
DO - 10.1145/1146847.1146877
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:34547298692
SN - 1595934286
SN - 9781595934284
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, InfoScale '06
T2 - 1st International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, InfoScale '06
Y2 - 30 May 2006 through 1 June 2006
ER -