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Scientific workflows are combinations of activities and computations in order to solve scientific problems. In contrast to, for instance, business workflows that implement business processes involving different persons and information systems, scientific workflows are used to carry out computational experiments, possibly confirming or invalidating scientific hypotheses [1]. Scientific workflow systems [2][3] support and automate the execution of error-prone, repetitive tasks such as data access, transformation, and analysis. Several systems for different purposes and following different approaches have been developed in the last decade, and research in this comparatively new field is currently going into many different directions.
This ISoLA 2010 special track is devoted to “Tools in Scientific Workflow Composition”. Its papers comprise subjects such as tools and frameworks for workflow composition, semantically aware workflow development, and automatic workflow composition, as well as some case studies, examples, and experiences. The contributions are primarily from the bioinformatics domain, but do also contain examples from other (scientific) application domains.
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Kok, J.N., Lamprecht, AL., Wilkinson, M.D. (2010). Tools in Scientific Workflow Composition. In: Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation. ISoLA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16558-0_22
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