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

本研究的目标是产生一个通用的，但域可定制的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，是协作的性质，需要密集的用户交互，从多个分布式域科学家。作为一个自然的扩展，现有的单一用户为导向的科学工作流管理工具，通过提供直接的系统支持科学合作，该项目旨在铺平道路，支持科学合作的下一代工具，通过互联网。 该工具可以很容易地扩展到支持任何情报社区中以数据为中心的协同信息管理，为了实现更广泛的影响，本研究旨在建立一套支持协同科学工作流组成和管理的基础模型和技术，并在此基础上，构建一个基于Internet的协同科学工作流工具框架与开源倡议。早期概念赠款探索性研究（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，配备了基本的面向服务的科学工作流模型和协作模式集成在一个敏捷的面向服务的架构。为了避免重新发明轮子，工作将集中在将已知的开源科学工作流程管理工具Taverna转换和扩展为协作版本。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/