Workflows for E-science : Scientific Workflows for Grids (Hardcover)

Scientific versus Business Workflows.- Scientific versus Business Workflows.- Application and User Perspective.- Generating Complex Astronomy Workflows.- A Case Study on the Use of Workflow Technologies for Scientific Analysis: Gravitational Wave Data Analysis.- Workflows in Pulsar Astronomy.- Workflow and Biodiversity e-Science.- Ecological Niche Modeling Using the Kepler Workflow System.- Case Studies on the Use of Workflow Technologies for Scientific Analysis: The Biomedical Informatics Research Network and the Telescience Project.- Dynamic, Adaptive Workflows for Mesoscale Meteorology.- SCEC CyberShake Workflows?Automating Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis Calculations.- Workflow Representation and Common Structure.- Control- Versus Data-Driven Workflows.- Component Architectures and Services: From Application Construction to Scientific Workflows.- Petri Nets.- Adapting BPEL to Scientific Workflows.- Protocol-Based Integration Using SSDL and ?-Calculus.- Workflow Composition: Semantic Representations for Flexible Automation.- Virtual Data Language: A Typed Workflow Notation for Diversely Structured Scientific Data.- Frameworks and Tools: Workflow Generation, Refinement, and Execution.- Workflow-Level Parametric Study Support by MOTEUR and the P-GRADE Portal.- Taverna/myGrid: Aligning a Workflow System with the Life Sciences Community.- The Triana Workflow Environment: Architecture and Applications.- Java CoG Kit Workflow.- Workflow Management in Condor.- Pegasus: Mapping Large-Scale Workflows to Distributed Resources.- ICENI.- Expressing Workflow in the Cactus Framework.- Sedna: A BPEL-Based Environment for Visual Scientific Workflow Modeling.- ASKALON: A Development and Grid Computing Environment for Scientific Workflows.- Future Requirements.- Looking into the Future of Workflows: The Challenges Ahead.