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A scientific workflow is the description of a process for accomplishing a scientific objective, usually expressed in terms of tasks and their dependencies [5]. While workflows have a long history in the database community as well as in business process modeling (where they are also known as business workflows), and despite some early works on scientific workflows [3,10], the area has only recently begun to fully flourish (e.g., see [1,2,9,7,4,11]). Similar to scientific data management which has different characteristics from traditional business data management [8], scientific workflows exhibit new challenges and opportunities that distinguish them from business workflows. We present an overview of these challenges and opportunities, covering a number of issues such as different models of computation, scalable data and process management, and data provenance and lineage handling in scientific workflows.
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Ludäscher, B. (2009). What Makes Scientific Workflows Scientific?. In: Winslett, M. (eds) Scientific and Statistical Database Management. SSDBM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5566. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02279-1_16
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