Article in Proceedings INPROC-2012-39

BibliographyKarastoyanova, Dimka; Dentsas, Dimitrios; Schumm, David; Sonntag, Mirko; Sun, Lina; Vukojevic-Haupt, Karolina: Service-based Integration of Human Users in Workflow-driven Scientific Experiments.
In: Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2012).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 1-8, english.
IEEE Computer Society Press, October 10, 2012.
DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2012.6404435.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
I.6.7 (Simulation Support Systems)
KeywordsScientific Workflows; Human Task Management; Cyber-infrastructure; Communication Services
Abstract

Through increased usage of information technology in research and practice ever more tasks can be automated to make scientific experiments more efficient in terms of cost, speed, accuracy, and flexibility. Scientific workflows have proven useful for the automation of scientific computations. However, not all tasks of an experiment can be automated. Some decisions still need to be made by human users, for instance, decisions how an automated system should proceed in an exceptional situation. To address the need for integration of human users in such automated systems, we propose the concept of Human Communication Flows, which specify the way how an application, such as a scientific workflow, can interact with a human user. We developed a human communication framework that implements these Communication Flows in a pipes-and-filters architecture supporting notifications and request-response interactions. For usage within a scientific workflow we created workflow fragments, which implement the interaction with the framework. Different Communication Services can be plugged into this framework to account for different communication capabilities of human users.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)SimTech
Entry dateAugust 28, 2012
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