Best practices for workflow design: how to prevent workflow decay

Kristina Hettne; Katy Wolstencroft; Khalid Belhajjame; Carole Goble; Eleni Mina; Harish Dharuri; Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro; Julián Garrido; David de Roure; Marco Roos

Best practices for workflow design: how to prevent workflow decay

Kristina Hettne, Katy Wolstencroft, Khalid Belhajjame, Carole Goble, Eleni Mina, Harish Dharuri, Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro, Julián Garrido, David de Roure, Marco Roos

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In this position paper we present a set of best practices for workflow design to prevent workflow decay and increase reuse and re-purposing of scientific workflows. MyExperiment provides access to a large number of scientific workflows. However, scientists find it difficult to reuse or re-purpose these workflows for mainly two reasons: workflows suffer from decay over time and lack sufficient metadata to understand their purpose. We argue that good workflow design is a prerequisite for repairing a workflow, or redesigning an equivalent workflow pattern with new components. We present a set of best practices for workflow design and the semantic tooling that is being developed in the Workflow4Ever (Wf4Ever) project to support these best practices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SWAT4LS: semantic web applications and tools for life sciences 2012
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 5th international workshop on semantic web applications and tools for life sciences
Editors	Adrian Paschke, Albert Burger, Paolo Romano, M. Scott Marshall, Andrea Splendiani
Place of Publication	Aachen, Germany
Publisher	RWTH Aachen University
Number of pages	6
Volume	952
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2012
Event	5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences - Amphiteatre Farabeuf, Cordeliers Research Center, Paris, France Duration: 28 Nov 2012 → 30 Nov 2012 Conference number: 5 http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/paris2012/

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Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR-WS.org
Volume	952
ISSN (Electronic)	1613-0073

Conference

Conference	5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences
Abbreviated title	SWAT4LS 2012
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	28/11/12 → 30/11/12
Internet address	http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/paris2012/

Keywords

Scientific workflows
Decay
Best practices

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WF4EVER: Wf4Ever - Advanced Workflow Preservation Technologies for Enhanced Science
Goble, C. (PI), Bechhofer, S. (CoI), Fernandes, A. (CoI), Soiland-Reyes, S. (Researcher) & Belhajjame, K. (Researcher)
1/12/10 → 30/11/13
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Hettne, K., Wolstencroft, K., Belhajjame, K., Goble, C., Mina, E., Dharuri, H., Verdes-Montenegro, L., Garrido, J., Roure, D. D., & Roos, M. (2012). Best practices for workflow design: how to prevent workflow decay. In A. Paschke, A. Burger, P. Romano, M. S. Marshall, & A. Splendiani (Eds.), SWAT4LS: semantic web applications and tools for life sciences 2012: proceedings of the 5th international workshop on semantic web applications and tools for life sciences (Vol. 952). Article 23 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 952). RWTH Aachen University. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-952/paper_23.pdf

Hettne, Kristina ; Wolstencroft, Katy ; Belhajjame, Khalid et al. / Best practices for workflow design : how to prevent workflow decay. SWAT4LS: semantic web applications and tools for life sciences 2012: proceedings of the 5th international workshop on semantic web applications and tools for life sciences. editor / Adrian Paschke ; Albert Burger ; Paolo Romano ; M. Scott Marshall ; Andrea Splendiani. Vol. 952 Aachen, Germany : RWTH Aachen University, 2012. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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Best practices for workflow design: how to prevent workflow decay. / Hettne, Kristina; Wolstencroft, Katy; Belhajjame, Khalid et al.
SWAT4LS: semantic web applications and tools for life sciences 2012: proceedings of the 5th international workshop on semantic web applications and tools for life sciences. ed. / Adrian Paschke; Albert Burger; Paolo Romano; M. Scott Marshall; Andrea Splendiani. Vol. 952 Aachen, Germany: RWTH Aachen University, 2012. 23 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 952).

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