Why workflows break - Understanding and combating decay in Taverna workflows.
Workflows provide a popular means for preserving scientific methods by explicitly encoding their process. However, some of them are subject to a decay in their ability to be re-executed or reproduce the same results over time, largely due to the volatility of the resources required for workflow exec...
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| author | Zhao, J Gómez-Pérez, J Belhajjame, K Klyne, G García-Cuesta, E Garrido, A Hettne, K Roos, M Roure, D Goble, C |
| author_facet | Zhao, J Gómez-Pérez, J Belhajjame, K Klyne, G García-Cuesta, E Garrido, A Hettne, K Roos, M Roure, D Goble, C |
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| description | Workflows provide a popular means for preserving scientific methods by explicitly encoding their process. However, some of them are subject to a decay in their ability to be re-executed or reproduce the same results over time, largely due to the volatility of the resources required for workflow executions. This paper provides an analysis of the root causes of workflow decay based on an empirical study of a collection of Taverna workflows from the myExperiment repository. Although our analysis was based on a specific type of workflow, the outcomes and methodology should be applicable to workflows from other systems, at least those whose executions also rely largely on accessing third-party resources. Based on our understanding about decay we recommend a minimal set of auxiliary resources to be preserved together with the workflows as an aggregation object and provide a software tool for end-users to create such aggregations and to assess their completeness. ©2012 IEEE. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ab7d630b-925e-4826-a67b-57fe97bed4d92022-03-27T03:22:11ZWhy workflows break - Understanding and combating decay in Taverna workflows.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ab7d630b-925e-4826-a67b-57fe97bed4d9EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordIEEE2012Zhao, JGómez-Pérez, JBelhajjame, KKlyne, GGarcía-Cuesta, EGarrido, AHettne, KRoos, MRoure, DGoble, CWorkflows provide a popular means for preserving scientific methods by explicitly encoding their process. However, some of them are subject to a decay in their ability to be re-executed or reproduce the same results over time, largely due to the volatility of the resources required for workflow executions. This paper provides an analysis of the root causes of workflow decay based on an empirical study of a collection of Taverna workflows from the myExperiment repository. Although our analysis was based on a specific type of workflow, the outcomes and methodology should be applicable to workflows from other systems, at least those whose executions also rely largely on accessing third-party resources. Based on our understanding about decay we recommend a minimal set of auxiliary resources to be preserved together with the workflows as an aggregation object and provide a software tool for end-users to create such aggregations and to assess their completeness. ©2012 IEEE. |
| spellingShingle | Zhao, J Gómez-Pérez, J Belhajjame, K Klyne, G García-Cuesta, E Garrido, A Hettne, K Roos, M Roure, D Goble, C Why workflows break - Understanding and combating decay in Taverna workflows. |
| title | Why workflows break - Understanding and combating decay in Taverna workflows. |
| title_full | Why workflows break - Understanding and combating decay in Taverna workflows. |
| title_fullStr | Why workflows break - Understanding and combating decay in Taverna workflows. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why workflows break - Understanding and combating decay in Taverna workflows. |
| title_short | Why workflows break - Understanding and combating decay in Taverna workflows. |
| title_sort | why workflows break understanding and combating decay in taverna workflows |
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