Process Design for Natural Scientists: An Agile Model-Driven Approach

✍ Scribed by Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Tiziana Margaria (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science 500
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents an agile and model-driven approach to manage scientific workflows. The approach is based on the Extreme Model Driven Design (XMDD) paradigm and aims at simplifying and automating the complex data analysis processes carried out by scientists in their day-to-day work. Besides documenting the impact the workflow modeling might have on the work of natural scientists, this book serves three major purposes: 1. It acts as a primer for practitioners who are interested to learn how to think in terms of services and workflows when facing domain-specific scientific processes. 2. It provides interesting material for readers already familiar with this kind of tools, because it introduces systematically both the technologies used in each case study and the basic concepts behind them. 3. As the addressed thematic field becomes increasingly relevant for lectures in both computer science and experimental sciences, it also provides helpful material for teachers that plan similar courses.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Scientific Workflows and XMDD....Pages 1-13
Modeling and Execution of Scientific Workflows with the jABC Framework....Pages 14-29
The Course’s SIB Libraries....Pages 30-44
Lessons Learned....Pages 45-64
Protein Classification Workflow....Pages 65-72
Data Mining for Unidentified Protein Sequences....Pages 73-87
Workflow for Rapid Metagenome Analysis....Pages 88-100
Constructing a Phylogenetic Tree....Pages 101-109
Exploratory Data Analysis....Pages 110-126
Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes....Pages 127-139
Visualization of Data Transfer Paths....Pages 140-148
Spotlocator – Guess Where the Photo Was Taken!....Pages 149-160
Geocoder Accuracy Ranking....Pages 161-174
Web-Based Map Generalization Tools Put to the Test: A jABC Workflow....Pages 175-185
CREADED: Colored-Relief Application for Digital Elevation Data....Pages 186-199
A Workflow for Computing Potential Areas for Wind Turbines....Pages 200-215
Location Analysis for Placing Artificial Reefs....Pages 216-228
Creation of Topographic Maps....Pages 229-238
GraffDok — A Graffiti Documentation Application....Pages 239-251
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Models and Principles; Software Engineering; Simulation and Modeling; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Database Management