BPEL4Pegasus: Combining business and scientific workflows

Mirko Sonntag*, Dimka Karastoyanova, Ewa Deelman

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Abstract

Business and scientific workflow management systems (WfMS) offer different features to their users because they are developed for different application areas with different requirements. Research is currently being done to extend business WfMSs by functionality that meets requirements of scientists and scientific applications. The idea is to bring the strengths of business WfMSs to e-Science. This means great effort in re-implementing features already offered by scientific WfMSs. In our work, we investigated another approach, namely combining business and scientific workflows and thus harnessing the advantages of both. We demonstrate a prototype that implements this idea with BPEL as business workflow language and Pegasus as scientific WfMS. Our motivation is the fact that the manual work to correctly install and configure Pegasus can be supervised by a BPEL workflow to minimize sources of failures and automate the overall process of scientific experimenting.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationService-Oriented Computing - 8th International Conference, ICSOC 2010, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer
Pages728-729
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)3642173578, 9783642173578
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2010 - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: 7-Dec-201010-Dec-2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6470 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period07/12/201010/12/2010

Keywords

  • BPEL
  • business workflows
  • human tasks
  • Pegasus
  • Scientific workflows

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