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Scientific workflows streamline large-scale, complex scientific processes and enable different parts of a process to be systematically and efficiently executed on distributed resources. In this paper, we propose an event-driven framework for scientific workflows, which goes beyond the typical paradigm of global ECA (Event-Condition-Action) rules and executes scientific processes in terms of event message-driven conversations between rule agents. The behavioral reaction logic implemented by messaging reaction rules in combination with derivation rules used to represent complicated scientific conditional logic provides a highly expressive, scalable and flexible way to define complex scientific workflow patterns. Finally, a prototype system based on a Web rule engine Prova and a tool for rule-based collaboration Rule Responder is demonstrated.
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Zhao, Z., Paschke, A. (2013). Event-Driven Scientific Workflow Execution. In: La Rosa, M., Soffer, P. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36285-9_42
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