The design and implementation of a workflow analysis tool

@article{Curcin2010TheDA,
  title={The design and implementation of a workflow analysis tool},
  author={Vasa Curcin and Moustafa M. Ghanem and Yike Guo},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
  year={2010},
  volume={368},
  pages={4193 - 4208}
}
  • V. Curcin, M. Ghanem, Yike Guo
  • Published 13 September 2010
  • Computer Science
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Motivated by the use of scientific workflows as a user-oriented mechanism for building executable scientific data integration and analysis applications, this article introduces a framework and a set of associated methods for analysing the execution properties of scientific workflows. Our framework uses a number of formal modelling techniques to characterize the process and data behaviour of workflows and workflow components and to reason about their functional and execution properties. We use… 
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