Building scientific workflow with Taverna and BPEL: A comparative study in caGrid

Wei Tan; Paolo Missier; Ravi Madduri; Ian Foster

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01247-1_11

Building scientific workflow with Taverna and BPEL: A comparative study in caGrid

Wei Tan^*, Paolo Missier, Ravi Madduri, Ian Foster

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With the emergence of "service oriented science," the need arises to orchestrate various services to facilitate scientific investigation - that is, to create "science workflows." In this paper we summarize our findings in providing a workflow solution for the caGrid service-based grid infrastructure. We choose BPEL and Taverna as candidate solutions, and compare their usability in the full lifecycle of a scientific workflow, including service discovery, service composition, workflow execution, and workflow result analysis. We determine that BPEL offers a comprehensive set of primitives for modeling processes of all flavors, while Taverna provides a more compact set of primitives and a functional programming model that eases data flow modeling. We hope that our analysis not only helps researchers choose a tool that meets their needs, but also provides some insight on how a workflow language and tool can fulfill the requirement of scientists.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 Workshops - ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	118-129
Number of pages	12
Volume	5472 LNCS
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01247-1_11
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2008 - Sydney, NSW, Australia Duration: 1 Dec 2008 → 1 Dec 2008

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	5472 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2008
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney, NSW
Period	1/12/08 → 1/12/08

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Tan, W., Missier, P., Madduri, R., & Foster, I. (2009). Building scientific workflow with Taverna and BPEL: A comparative study in caGrid. In Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 Workshops - ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 5472 LNCS, pp. 118-129). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5472 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01247-1_11

Tan, Wei ; Missier, Paolo ; Madduri, Ravi et al. / Building scientific workflow with Taverna and BPEL : A comparative study in caGrid. Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 Workshops - ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 5472 LNCS 2009. pp. 118-129 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Tan, W, Missier, P, Madduri, R & Foster, I 2009, Building scientific workflow with Taverna and BPEL: A comparative study in caGrid. in Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 Workshops - ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 5472 LNCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 5472 LNCS, pp. 118-129, International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2008, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1/12/08. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01247-1_11

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Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 Workshops - ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 5472 LNCS 2009. p. 118-129 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5472 LNCS).

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Tan W, Missier P, Madduri R, Foster I. Building scientific workflow with Taverna and BPEL: A comparative study in caGrid. In Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 Workshops - ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 5472 LNCS. 2009. p. 118-129. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-01247-1_11

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