The wide-scale development of ontologies in the bioinformatics domain facilitates their use in the creation of scientific workflows. To speed up the design of workflows, a Service Suggestion Engine is interfaced to the Galaxy Tool Integration and Workflow Platform. This enables users to ask for suggestions (e.g., what operation should go next) while designing workflows with the Galaxy user inte...

The scale of big data causes the compositions of extract-transform-load (ETL) workflows to grow increasingly complex. With the turnaround time for delivering solutions becoming a greater emphasis, stakeholders cannot continue to afford to wait the hundreds of hours it takes for domain experts to manually compose a workflow solution. This paper describes a novel AI planning approach that facilit...

This is an exploration to foretell a future in which traditional approaches for developing workflow management systems can be supplanted by new techniques and emerging technologies. This thesis recommends sets of methodologies for performing multiagent-based distributed and flexible workflow systems. Its objective is to deal with some of the present issues in the traditional workflow system fro...

Workflow tools have been successfully applied to automate work in many situations where the work is well regulated, there is a stable pattern of work, and there is a sufficiently high volume or sufficiently high importance to justify the cost of automating the activities. In many other circumstances there is a very mixed story of success and failure of workflow implementation. The Web also has ...

Collaborative information systems are becoming more and more complex, involving numerous interacting business objects within considerable processes. Analysing the interaction structure of those complex systems will enable them to be well understood and controlled. The work described in this paper is a contribution to these problems for workflow based process applications. In fact, we discover w...

The Geodise project brings computer scientists and engineer’s skills together to build up a serviceoriented computing environment for engineers to perform complicated computations in a distributed system. The workflow tool is a front GUI to provide a full life cycle of workflow functions for Gridenabled computing. The full life cycle of workflow functions have been enhanced based our initial re...

The following paper presents a modular, groupwareand workflow based System called INFOFLOW. The system was designed to meet the requirements of a DIN EN ISO 9000 certified development and pre production plant. As a compromise between usage of standard software and a complete custom solution it is partly based on Microsoft Standard Office Software to increase end-users acceptance, supplemented b...

This paper reports on work on a structural health monitoring system done for NASA at North Carolina A&T State University. The system combines a multiagent system as the "brains" and a workflow system as the "brawn." Agents here typically serve as proxies for techniques with intensive communication and computation requirements. Agents negotiate to determine a constellation of techniques for solv...

This paper describes the architecture for transparently using several di erent Cloud Resources from with the graphical Kepler Worklfow environment. This architecture was proven to work by implementing and using it in practice within the FP7 project EUFORIA. The clouds supported are the Open Source cloud environment OpenNEbula (ONE) and the commercial Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Subseque...

In this paper, we present a novel Context-aware Workflow Management Engine (CWME) which offers seamless control and coordination of ubiquitous networked devices in a heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed (HAD) environment. CWME adopts the concept from contemporary Business Process Management (BPM) systems where end users are allowed to design or customize activities and workflows involving...