Service Based Support for Scientific Workflows: A Service Oriented Architecture for Scientific Workflows

This book studies the feasibility, usability and effectiveness of the Scientific Data Management Service Workflow System (SDMSWS) architecture, which eases the access to scientific data and solutions, and manipulation and analysis of the same, with an interactive Graphical User Interface based workflow construction and execution environment that supports the Web Services framework. The work illustrates how the defined architecture extends by facilitating integration of diverse domain specific components. The framework assessment was performed based on problem solving environment metrics, and SDMSWS was compared against commercial standards and research solutions driven by similar goals.