Modeling and execution of scientific workflows with the jabc framework

Anna Lena Lamprecht, Tiziana Margaria, Bernhard Steffen

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Abstract

We summarize here the main characteristics and features of the jABC framework, used in the case studies as a graphical tool for modeling scientific processes and workflows. As a comprehensive environment for service-oriented modeling and design according to the XMDD (eXtreme Model-Driven Design) paradigm, the jABC offers much more than the pure modeling capability. Associated technologies and plugins provide in fact means for a rich variety of supporting functionality, such as remote service integration, taxonomical service classification, model execution, model verification, model synthesis, and model compilation. We describe here in short both the essential jABC features and the service integration philosophy followed in the environment. In our work over the last years we have seen that this kind of service definition and provisioning platform has the potential to become a core technology in interdisciplinary service orchestration and technology transfer: Domain experts, like scientists not specially trained in computer science, directly define complex service orchestrations as process models and use efficient and complex domain-specific tools in a simple and intuitive way.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14-29
Number of pages16
JournalCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume500
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • JABC
  • JETI
  • Model-driven development
  • Scientific processes and workflows
  • Service integration
  • Service orchestration
  • XMDD

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