Abstract

Scientific workflow management systems play a major role in the design, execution and documentation of computational experiments. However, they have limited support for managing workflow evolution and exploration because they lack rich metadata for the software that implements workflow components. Such metadata could be used to support scientists in exploring local adjustments to a workflow, replacing components with similar software, or upgrading components upon release of newer software versions. To address this challenge, we propose OntoSoft-VFF (Ontology for Software Version, Function and Functionality), a software metadata repository designed to capture information about software and workflow components that is important for managing workflow exploration and evolution. Our approach uses a novel ontology to describe the functionality and evolution through time of any software used to …

Date

October 29, 2018

Authors

Lucas Augusto MC Carvalho, Daniel Garijo, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Yolanda Gil

Conference

2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science)

Pages

431-441

Publisher

IEEE