NDLI: A Task Abstraction and Mapping Approach to the Shimming Problem in Scientific Workflows

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Cui Lin Shiyong Lu Xubo Fei Darshan Pai Jing Hua
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Recently, there has been an increasing need in scientific workflows to solve the shimming problem, the use of a special kind of adaptors, called shims, to link related but incompatible workflow tasks. However, existing techniques produce scientific workflows that are cluttered with many visible shims, which distract a scientist’s focus on functional components. Moreover, these techniques do not address a new type of shimming problem that occurs due to the incompatibility between the ports of a task and the inputs/outputs of its internal task component. To address these issues, 1) we propose a task template model which encapsulates the composition and mapping of shims and functional task component within a task interface; 2) we design an XML based task specification language, called TSL, to realize the proposed task template model; 3) we propose a service oriented architecture for task management to enable the distributed execution of shims and functional components; and 4) we implement the proposed model, language and architecture and present a case study to validate them. Our technique uniquely addresses both types of shimming problems. To our best knowledge, this is the first shimming technique that makes shims invisible at the workflow level, resulting in scientific workflows that are more elegant and readable.
Starting Page	284
Ending Page	291
File Size	503294
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424451838
DOI	10.1109/SCC.2009.77
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-09-21
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer science Specification languages Acceleration Feeds scientific workflows Shimming problem TSL abstraction mapping
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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