Monitoring of Choreographies/ Monitoring Von Choreographien

Background The SimTech Cluster of Excellence [1] studies multi-scale and multi-field simulation methods. These methods aim for combining different scales (e.g. cells, tissue, bone, skeleton) and different scientific fields (e.g., chemistry, biology, and physics) into one overall simulation. The Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS) has built a workflow management system that is tailored specifically for the requirements and needs of scientists [2]. The workflow system allows to model simulations as workflows in order to make them more flexible and improve automation. The workflows can be modeled, executed, adapted, monitored, and analyzed. The current system orchestrates different simulation components into one workflow using either only one scale or an approximation of all scientific fields/scales onto one scale. The monitoring information is displayed inside the modeling environment as an overlay on the modeled scientific workflow. Activities of the workflow are colored differently according to their life cycle phase. This enables scientists to experience modeling, execution, and the monitoring of execution in one tool as one coherent experimentation phase. Technically, this is realized by consuming and producing events during workflow execution via a messaging system [3]. An event model describes all possible events and their relation [4].