III:EAGER:Collaborative Research:A Collaborative Scientific Workflow Composition Tool Supporting Scientific Collaboration

本研究的目标是生产一种通用但可定制的领域协作科学工作流工具，以加速科学发现，特别是促进大规模和跨学科的研究项目，这些项目本质上是协作的，需要来自多个分布式领域科学家的密集用户交互。通过为科学协作提供直接的系统支持，作为现有单一用户导向的科学工作流管理工具的自然扩展，该项目旨在为支持互联网上的科学协作的下一代工具铺平道路。预期的工具可以很容易地扩展，以支持任何智能社区中以数据为中心的协作信息管理。为了实现这一更广泛的影响，本研究寻求建立一套支持协作科学工作流组成和管理的基础模型和技术；在此基础上，构建了一个基于互联网的协作式科学工作流工具，并以开源为框架。早期概念资助探索性研究（EAGER）项目的最初重点是快速创建一个原型工具，作为概念验证，配备基本的面向数据流的科学工作流模型和集成在敏捷面向服务的体系结构中的协作模式。为了避免重复发明轮子，我们将集中精力将Taverna（一个已知的开源科学工作流管理工具）转换和扩展为协作版本。评估和验证将通过与多个合作科学团体的伙伴关系进行。欲了解更多信息，请访问项目网站http://www.CollaborativeScientificWorkflows.org/

The goal of this research aims to produce a general-purpose but domain-customizable collaborative scientific workflow tool for accelerating scientific discovery, particularly facilitating large-scale and cross-disciplinary research projects that are collaborative in nature and require intensive user interaction from multiple distributed domain scientists. As a natural extension to the existing single user-oriented scientific workflow management tools by providing direct system support for scientific collaboration, this project seeks to pave a way toward a next-generation tool supporting scientific collaboration over the Internet. The expected tool can be easily expanded to support data-centric collaborative information management in any intelligence community. To achieve this broader impact, this research seeks to establish a set of foundational models and techniques supporting collaborative scientific workflow composition and management; and based on them, construct an Internet-based collaborative scientific workflow tool framed with an open-source initiative. The initial focus of the Early Concept Grants Exploratory Research(EAGER) project is on rapidly creating a prototype tool as a proof of concept, equipped with basic dataflow-oriented scientific workflow models and collaboration patterns integrated in an agile service-oriented architecture. To avoid reinventing the wheel, the efforts will be concentrated on transforming and extending Taverna, a known open-source scientific workflow management tool, into a collaborative version. Evaluations and validations will be conducted through partnerships with multiple collaborative scientific communities.For further information, see the project website at http://www.CollaborativeScientificWorkflows.org/