Abstract
Scientists increasingly use workflows to represent and share their computational experiments. Because of their declarative nature, focus on pre-existing component composition and the availability of visual editors, workflows provide a valuable start for creating user-friendly environments for end user scientists. However, there is still work to be done to create even more user-friendly environments. In this paper, we aim to identify key constructs that intelligent workflow systems could support to allow for more natural workflow representations. These constructs are identified through a comparison of bioinformatics workflows and their associated natural language descriptions obtained from the virtual research environment myExperiment.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2009 IEEE Congress on Services, Part I, SERVICES I 2009 |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| Pages | 299-305 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780769537085 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |