Cooperative E-Organizations for Distributed Bioinformatics Experiments

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Bosin;Nicoletta Dessì;Mariagrazia Fugini;Barbara Pes

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, 09124;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, 09124;Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, I-20133;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, 09124

  • Venue:
  • IDEAL '08 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Large-scale collaboration is a key success factor in today scientific experiments, usually involving a variety of digital resources, while Cooperative Information Systems (CISs) represent a feasible solution for sharing distributed information sources and activities. On this premise, the aim of this paper is to provide a paradigm for modeling scientific experiments as distributed processes that a group of scientists may go through on a network of cooperative e-nodes interacting with one another in order to offer or to ask for services. By discussing a bioinformatics case study, the paper details how the problem solving strategy related to a scientific experiment can be expressed by a workflow of single cooperating activities whose implementation is carried out on a prototypical service-based scientific environment.