Managing rapidly-evolving scientific workflows

  • Authors:
  • Juliana Freire;Cláudio T. Silva;Steven P. Callahan;Emanuele Santos;Carlos E. Scheidegger;Huy T. Vo

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Utah;University of Utah;University of Utah;University of Utah;University of Utah;University of Utah

  • Venue:
  • IPAW'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Provenance and Annotation of Data
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We give an overview of VisTrails, a system that provides an infrastructure for systematically capturing detailed provenance and streamlining the data exploration process. A key feature that sets VisTrails apart from previous visualization and scientific workflow systems is a novel action-based mechanism that uniformly captures provenance for data products and workflows used to generate these products. This mechanism not only ensures reproducibility of results, but it also simplifies data exploration by allowing scientists to easily navigate through the space of workflows and parameter settings for an exploration task.