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Semantically Resolving Type Mismatches in Scientific Workflows

Semantically Resolving Type Mismatches in Scientific Workflows
Semantically Resolving Type Mismatches in Scientific Workflows
Scientists are increasingly utilizing Grids to manage large data sets and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Scientific workflows are used as means for modeling and enacting scientific experiments. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a major component of Microsoft’s .NET technology which offers lightweight support for long-running workflows. It provides a comfortable graphical and programmatic environment for the development of extended BPEL-style workflows. WF’s visual features ease the syntactic composition of Web services into scientific workflows but do nothing to assure that information passed between services has consistent semantic types or representations or that deviant flows, errors and compensations are handled meaningfully. In this paper we introduce SAWSDL-compliant annotations for WF and use them with a semantic reasoner to guarantee semantic type correctness in scientific workflows. Examples from bioinformatics are presented.
semantic web services, scientific workflows
0302-9743
125-135
Derouiche, Kheiredine
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Derouiche, Kheiredine and Nicole, Denis A , Meersman, Robert, Tari, Zahir and Herrero, Pilar (eds.) (2007) Semantically Resolving Type Mismatches in Scientific Workflows. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4805, 125-135.

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Scientists are increasingly utilizing Grids to manage large data sets and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Scientific workflows are used as means for modeling and enacting scientific experiments. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a major component of Microsoft’s .NET technology which offers lightweight support for long-running workflows. It provides a comfortable graphical and programmatic environment for the development of extended BPEL-style workflows. WF’s visual features ease the syntactic composition of Web services into scientific workflows but do nothing to assure that information passed between services has consistent semantic types or representations or that deviant flows, errors and compensations are handled meaningfully. In this paper we introduce SAWSDL-compliant annotations for WF and use them with a semantic reasoner to guarantee semantic type correctness in scientific workflows. Examples from bioinformatics are presented.

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Published date: 22 November 2007
Additional Information: Event Dates: 26/11/2007
Venue - Dates: 3rd International Workshop on Agents and Web Services in Distributed Environments, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2007-11-26
Keywords: semantic web services, scientific workflows
Organisations: Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 264774
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/264774
ISSN: 0302-9743
PURE UUID: 3c528f2d-f431-4220-8906-daaa27c08613

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Date deposited: 02 Nov 2007
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 07:56

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Author: Kheiredine Derouiche
Author: Denis A Nicole
Editor: Robert Meersman
Editor: Zahir Tari
Editor: Pilar Herrero

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