Article in Proceedings INPROC-2010-26

BibliographySonntag, Mirko; Currle-Linde, Natalia; Görlach, Katharina; Karastoyanova, Dimka: Towards Simulation Workflows With BPEL: Deriving Missing Features From GriCoL.
In: Alhajj, R.S. (ed.); Leung, V.C.M. (ed.); Saif, M. (ed.); Thring, R. (ed.): Proceedings of the 21st IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS 2010), 2010..
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
english.
ACTA Press, July 2010.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
H.3.4 (Information Storage and Retrieval Systems and Software)
KeywordsSimulation tools and languages; Workflow management; BPEL; GriCoL
Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the suitability of the generalpurpose workflow language BPEL to create executable simulation workflows. We therefore compare BPEL to GriCoL, a graphical language with proven applicability for simulation workflows in Grid environments. We discover a number of incomparable concepts in the two languages. On the one hand, BPEL’s unique features in comparison to GriCoL reveal the rationale behind the approach of using BPEL as basis for a simulation workflow language. On the other hand, based on the features of GriCoL, we are able to discuss how to extend BPEL in order to increase its expressiveness for simulation workflows.

Contactmirko.sonntag@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)SimTech
Entry dateMay 5, 2010
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