TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lamprecht, Anna-Lena
A1  - Margaria, Tiziana
A1  - Steffen, Bernhard
ED  - Lambrecht, Anna-Lena
ED  - Margaria, Tiziana
T1  - Modeling and Execution of Scientific Workflows with the jABC Framework
JF  - Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 978-3-662-45005-5
SN  - 1865-0929
IS  - 500
SP  - 14
EP  - 29
PB  - Springer Verlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lamprecht, Anna-Lena
A1  - Margaria, Tiziana
ED  - Lambrecht, Anna-Lena
ED  - Margaria, Tiziana
T1  - Scientific Workflows and XMDD
JF  - Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 978-3-662-45005-5
SN  - 1865-0929
IS  - 500
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - Springer Verlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lamprecht, Anna-Lena
A1  - Wickert, Alexander
A1  - Margaria, Tiziana
ED  - Lambrecht, Anna-Lena
ED  - Margaria, Tiziana
T1  - Lessons Learned
JF  - Process Design for Natural Scientists: an agile model-driven approach
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 978-3-662-45005-5
SN  - 1865-0929
IS  - 500
SP  - 45
EP  - 64
PB  - Springer Verlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lamprecht, Anna-Lena
A1  - Margaria, Tiziana
ED  - Lamprecht, Anna-Lena
ED  - Margaria, Tiziana
T1  - Scientific workflows and XMDD
JF  - Process design for natural scientists
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 978-3-662-45006-2
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  -