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

这项研究的目标是产生一个通用的但领域可定制的协作科学工作流工具，用于加速科学发现，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，需要多个分布式领域的科学家进行密集的用户交互。作为现有单一面向用户的科学工作流管理工具的自然扩展，该项目通过为科学协作提供直接的系统支持，试图为在互联网上支持科学协作的下一代工具铺平道路。为了实现更广泛的影响，本研究试图建立一套支持协同科学工作流合成和管理的基础模型和技术，并在此基础上构建一个基于开源倡议的基于互联网的协同科学工作流工具框架。早期Concept Grants探索性研究(AGIRE)项目的最初重点是快速创建一个原型工具作为概念验证，该工具配备了基本的面向数据流的科学工作流模型和集成在敏捷的面向服务的体系结构中的协作模式。为了避免重新发明轮子，工作重点将集中在将Taverna这个已知的开源科学工作流管理工具转换和扩展为协作版。将通过与多个协作科学界的伙伴关系进行评价和验证。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/