@article{NaujokatNeubauerLamprechtetal.2014,
  author    = {Naujokat, Stefan and Neubauer, Johannes and Lamprecht, Anna-Lena and Steffen, Bernhard and Joerges, Sven and Margaria, Tiziana},
  title     = {Simplicity-first model-based plug-in development},
  series = {Software : practice \& experience},
  volume    = {44},
  journal   = {Software : practice \& experience},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0038-0644},
  doi       = {10.1002/spe.2243},
  pages     = {277 -- 297},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {In this article, we present our experience with over a decade of strict simplicity orientation in the development and evolution of plug-ins. The point of our approach is to enable our graphical modeling framework jABC to capture plug-in development in a domain-specific setting. The typically quite tedious and technical plug-in development is shifted this way from a programming task to the modeling level, where it can be mastered also by application experts without programming expertise. We show how the classical plug-in development profits from a systematic domain-specific API design and how the level of abstraction achieved this way can be further enhanced by defining adequate building blocks for high-level plug-in modeling. As the resulting plug-in models can be compiled and deployed automatically, our approach decomposes plug-in development into three phases where only the realization phase requires plug-in-specific effort. By using our modeling framework jABC, this effort boils down to graphical, tool-supported process modeling. Furthermore, we support the automatic completion of process sketches for executability. All this will be illustrated along the most recent plug-in-based evolution of the jABC framework, which witnessed quite some bootstrapping effects.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LamprechtWickertMargaria2014,
  author    = {Lamprecht, Anna-Lena and Wickert, Alexander and Margaria, Tiziana},
  title     = {Lessons Learned},
  series = {Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach},
  journal   = {Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach},
  number    = {500},
  editor    = {Lambrecht, Anna-Lena and Margaria, Tiziana},
  publisher = {Springer Verlag},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-662-45005-5},
  issn      = {1865-0929},
  pages     = {45 -- 64},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {This chapter summarizes the experience and the lessons we learned concerning the application of the jABC as a framework for design and execution of scientific workflows. It reports experiences from the domain modeling (especially service integration) and workflow design phases and evaluates the resulting models statistically with respect to the SIB library and hierarchy levels.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LamprechtWickert2014,
  author    = {Lamprecht, Anna-Lena and Wickert, Alexander},
  title     = {The Course's SIB Libraries},
  series = {Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach},
  journal   = {Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach},
  number    = {500},
  editor    = {Lambrecht, Anna-Lena and Margaria, Tiziana},
  publisher = {Springer Verlag},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-662-45005-5},
  issn      = {1865-0929},
  pages     = {30 -- 44},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {This chapter gives a detailed description of the service framework underlying all the example projects that form the foundation of this book. It describes the different SIB libraries that we made available for the course "Process modeling in the natural sciences" to provide the functionality that was required for the envisaged applications. The students used these SIB libraries to realize their projects.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LamprechtMargaria2014,
  author    = {Lamprecht, Anna-Lena and Margaria, Tiziana},
  title     = {Scientific Workflows and XMDD},
  series = {Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach},
  journal   = {Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach},
  number    = {500},
  editor    = {Lambrecht, Anna-Lena and Margaria, Tiziana},
  publisher = {Springer Verlag},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-662-45005-5},
  issn      = {1865-0929},
  pages     = {1 -- 13},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {A major part of the scientific experiments that are carried out today requires thorough computational support. While database and algorithm providers face the problem of bundling resources to create and sustain powerful computation nodes, the users have to deal with combining sets of (remote) services into specific data analysis and transformation processes. Today's attention to "big data" amplifies the issues of size, heterogeneity, and process-level diversity/integration. In the last decade, especially workflow-based approaches to deal with these processes have enjoyed great popularity. This book concerns a particularly agile and model-driven approach to manage scientific workflows that is based on the XMDD paradigm. In this chapter we explain the scope and purpose of the book, briefly describe the concepts and technologies of the XMDD paradigm, explain the principal differences to related approaches, and outline the structure of the book.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LamprechtMargariaSteffen2014,
  author    = {Lamprecht, Anna-Lena and Margaria, Tiziana and Steffen, Bernhard},
  title     = {Modeling and Execution of Scientific Workflows with the jABC Framework},
  series = {Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach},
  journal   = {Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach},
  number    = {500},
  editor    = {Lambrecht, Anna-Lena and Margaria, Tiziana},
  publisher = {Springer Verlag},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-662-45005-5},
  issn      = {1865-0929},
  pages     = {14 -- 29},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {We summarize here the main characteristics and features of the jABC framework, used in the case studies as a graphical tool for modeling scientific processes and workflows. As a comprehensive environment for service-oriented modeling and design according to the XMDD (eXtreme Model-Driven Design) paradigm, the jABC offers much more than the pure modeling capability. Associated technologies and plugins provide in fact means for a rich variety of supporting functionality, such as remote service integration, taxonomical service classification, model execution, model verification, model synthesis, and model compilation. We describe here in short both the essential jABC features and the service integration philosophy followed in the environment. In our work over the last years we have seen that this kind of service definition and provisioning platform has the potential to become a core technology in interdisciplinary service orchestration and technology transfer: Domain experts, like scientists not specially trained in computer science, directly define complex service orchestrations as process models and use efficient and complex domain-specific tools in a simple and intuitive way.},
  language  = {en}
}