Examining the Challenges of Scientific Workflows

Workflows have recently emerged as a paradigm for representing and managing complex distributed scientific computations and therefore accelerate the pace of scientific progress. A recent workshop on the Challenges of Scientific Workflows, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and held on May 1-2, 2006, brought together domain scientists, computer scientists, and social scientists to discuss requirements of future scientific applications and the challenges that they present to current workflow technologies. This paper reports on the discussions and recommendations of the workshop, the full report can be found at http://www.isi.edu/nsf-workflows06.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: COMPUTER
• Authors: Yolanda Gil, Ewa Deelman, Mark H. Ellisman, Thomas Fahringer, Geoffrey Fox, Dennis Gannon, Carole A. Goble, Miron Livny, Luc Moreau, Jim Myers
• Keywords: COMPUTER 2007, Scientific, Scientific Workflows, Workflow