A Reference Architecture for Scientific Workflow Management Systems and the VIEW SOA Solution

  • Authors:

  • Cui Lin;Shiyong Lu;Xubo Fei;Artem Chebotko;Darshan Pai;Zhaoqiang Lai;Farshad Fotouhi;Jing Hua

  • Affiliations:

  • Wayne State University, Detroit;Wayne State University, Detroit;Wayne State University, Detroit;University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg;Wayne State University, Detroit;Wayne State University, Detroit;Wayne State University, Detroit;Wayne State University, Detroit

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Scientific workflows have recently emerged as a new paradigm for scientists to formalize and structure complex and distributed scientific processes to enable and accelerate many scientific discoveries. In contrast to business workflows, which are typically control flow oriented, scientific workflows tend to be dataflow oriented, introducing a new set of requirements for system development. These requirements demand a new architectural design for scientific workflow management systems (SWFMSs). Although several SWFMSs have been developed that provide much experience for future research and development, a study from an architectural perspective is still missing. The main contributions of this paper are: 1) based on a comprehensive survey of the literature and identification of key requirements for SWFMSs, we propose the first reference architecture for SWFMSs; 2) according to the reference architecture, we further propose a service-oriented architecture for View (a VIsual sciEntific Workflow management system); 3) we implemented View to validate the feasibility of the proposed architectures; and 4) we present a View-based scientific workflow application system (SWFAS), called FiberFlow, to showcase the application of our View system.