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| S. McIlraith, T.C. Son, and H. Zeng, “Semantic Web Services,” IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on the Semantic Web, Mar./Apr. 2001, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 46-53. | semantic web, DAML, web services, agents, user constraints, user preferences | This paper proposes the family of DAML languages to annotate regular web services with semantic information, and the use of AI agents to reason about the semantic information in order to ultimately achieve automation of service discovery, composition, and interoperation. The semantic information also includes user constraints and preferences that can be used by the agents. The paper presents a framework for semantic web services that matches the visions of the semantic web and service oriented architectures. | Salayandia | 12/14/2005 12:00 AM |
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| D.J. Mandell and S.A. McIlraith, “Adapting BPEL4WS for the Semantic Web: The Bottom-Up Approach to Web Service Interoperation,” Proc. 2nd Int’l Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC 03), 2003 pp. 227-241. | workflows, BPEL, semantic web, web service composition | This paper exposes the current limitations of industry standards used in web service interoperation, and instead of providing an isolated solution in accordance to the visions of the semantic web, it leverages existing industry standards and extends upon them. In particular, it describes a framework that expends upon BPEL4WS for service composition and interoperation. | Salayandia | 12/14/2005 12:00 AM |
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| K. Verma et al., The METEOR-S Approach for Configuring and Executing Dynamic Web Processes, tech. report, Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, Univ. of Georgia, 2005. | web processes, semantic web, integer linear programming, constraints, dynamic configuration | This framework deals with “automatic” configuration of processes, which may be easier to implement on a standardized business environment. However, it may not apply for a scientific environment. The paper describes two categories of workflow management systems, one manual where the user specifies the workflow process and where our efforts fall, and another automatic, where the workflow process is automatically composed based on process constraints, which is the area of this work. | Salayandia | 12/14/2005 12:00 AM |
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| I. Foster, “Service-Oriented Science,” Science, May 2005, pp. 814-817. | Service Orientation, Cyberinfrastructure, E-Science | The internet has played a key role in exposing vast amount of data for scientists to use; however, tools and applications exposed as services through standard interfaces represent the next step in helping the scientist discover knowledge out of these vast pools of data. This is a good overview paper in applying service orientation towards scientific efforts. The term “Service-Oriented Science” is coined. | Salayandia | 12/14/2005 12:00 AM |
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| W.M.P. Van Der Aalst et al., “Workflow Patterns,” Distributed and Parallel Databases, July 2003, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 5-51. | workflows, patterns | This work provides a systematic analysis of workflows from a control-flow perspective and describes requirements of workflow languages in terms of patterns. An evaluation of state-of-the-art implementations with respect to the patterns is also provided. This paper is a great reference for definitions of workflows and workflow management systems. | Salayandia | 12/14/2005 12:00 AM |
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| D. Atkins et al., Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, tech. report, Nat’l Science Foundation, 2003. | Cyberinfrastructure | The report suggests that cyberinfrastructure development is not optional, but an actual necessity for the continuous progress of science and engineering. The report identifies key areas of investment and provides recommendations for cyberinfrastructure development. If anything, this publication can be used as reference for supporting the need for cyberinfrastructure. | Salayandia | 12/14/2005 12:00 AM |
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| I. Foster et al., “Chimera: A Virtual Data System for Representing, Querying, and Automating Data Derivation,” Proc. 14th Int’l Conf. Scientific and Statistical Database Management, (SSDBM 02), 2002. | Data Provenance, Discovery, Data Transformation, Data Derivation, Query, Ontology | This work presents a prototype system that addresses the issues of data provenance, discovery of available methods, and on-demand data generation. The paper presents a UML schema description, which can be considered an ontology definition elsewhere. Furthermore, it describes a language to define data transformations and data derivations, which can be queried to address the goals of the work. This approach is related to our work in workflows, which is also concerned with the same goals for SOA. Additionally, it describes an ontology application (although it is not called such). | Salayandia | 12/14/2005 12:00 AM |
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| G. Kickinger et al., “Workflow Management in GridMiner,” Proc. 3rd Cracow Grid Workshop, (CGW 03), Academic Computer Center CYFRONET AGH, Poland, 2004. | workflows, knowledge discovery | Authors discuss the workflow component of the GridMiner project, a knowledge discovery system. This work on workflows is similar to ours, in that the workflow components are service-oriented (i.e., OGSA services), and that some intermediary communication mechanism (e.g., data sink/source or buffer) is required between workflow components. The paper presents the knowledge discovery process representative of the GridMiner knowledge discovery system, which represents an alternative to our ontology-based knowledge discovery efforts. | Salayandia | 12/14/2005 12:00 AM |
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