Analysing scientific workflows: Why workflows not only connect web services

SERVICES 2009 - 5th 2009 World Congress on Services

Volumn , Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 314-321

  Wassink, Ingo ^a,e   Van Der Vet, Paul E ^a,e   Wolstencroft, Katy ^b   Neerincx, Pieter B T ^c,e   Roos, Marco ^d,e   Rauwerda, Han ^d,e   Breit, Timo M ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data conversion; Scientific workflow; Scripting; Sub workflow; Web services

Indexed keywords

DATA CONVERSION; DATA FORMAT; LIFE SCIENTISTS; LIFE-SCIENCES; LOCAL SERVICE; SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW WEB SERVICES;

WEB SERVICES;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 72849139376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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