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Scientific-Workflow (SWF) management is similar to practice management. However, SWFs are stored in a repository as independent items that are reused by other actors after a complex process of contextualization, decontextualization and recontextualization. Conversely, practices are contextualized procedures applicable in different contexts. SWFs are collected in repositories in a flat way independently of each other, while practices can be organized in a uniform representation of elements of knowledge, reasoning and contexts. This paper shows that SWF management may benefit of the contextual approach used for representing procedures and practices. We propose a three-step approach, namely a support to scientist for finding the right SWF in the repository, a generation of all the possible SWFs in a situation, and the interactive development of SWFs. Thus, a SWF system will be flexible enough to acquire new knowledge incrementally and learn new ways for SWF building from scientists. A challenge for the short term is the possibility to model cooperation by the coupling of actors’ task representation through a shared context.
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Brezillon, P. (2011). Contextualization of Scientific Workflows. In: Beigl, M., Christiansen, H., Roth-Berghofer, T.R., Kofod-Petersen, A., Coventry, K.R., Schmidtke, H.R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6967. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24279-3_5
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