Agent technology and scientific workflow management in an e-Science environment

In e-Science environments, scientific workflow management systems (SWMS) hide the integration details among Grid resources and allow scientists to prototype an experimental computing system at a high level of abstraction. However, the development of an effective SWMS requires profound knowledge on b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sloot, Peter M. A., Zhao, Zhiming, Belloum, Adam, Hertzberger, Bob
Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96261
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10169
http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/ictai/2005/2488/00/24880019-abs.html
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Summary:In e-Science environments, scientific workflow management systems (SWMS) hide the integration details among Grid resources and allow scientists to prototype an experimental computing system at a high level of abstraction. However, the development of an effective SWMS requires profound knowledge on both application domains and the network programming, and is often time consuming. Agent technologies provide suitable solutions to decompose the control intelligence of flow execution and to encapsulate distributed e-Science resources. The work presented in this paper is conducted in the context of the Dutch Virtual Laboratory for e-Science (VL-e) project. Agent technologies are proposed to realise generic workflow support.