Dear All,
I've been asked to circulate this on behalf of the WFM-RG. Please
consider replying as this will hopefully feed into future OGSA as well
as WFM-RG work.
steve..
Dear Researcher,
As part of the work of the OGF Workflow
Management Research Group, we are gathering user scenarios and
experiences on workflow interoperability and sharing, which we intend
will lead into a research document. Andrew Harrison (group secretary)
has created an on-line form to gather information for such a research
group document, which can be found here:
We would appreciate your help in taking the
time to answer these questions and provide us with your opinions on
these topics. As a background:
There are a number of existing workflow
tools and systems used by different projects in the eScience community.
Many of these projects have a long history of activity and have, as a
result, developed specialist knowledge in certain domains as well as
particular capabilities that support the scenarios the project has been
addressing. The relative maturity of these projects means that imposing
standards which would disrupt their development or diminish the
availability of their specialisms could be counter-productive. At OGF20
and OGF21, the Workflow Management Research Group (WFM-RG) focussed on
gathering and disseminating workflow sharing and interoperability
scenarios and requirements in an attempt to begin developing standards
and mechanisms that allow diverse workflow systems to interoperate
without undermining their individual strengths or development
procedures. This document is a request for input into that process. It
will not take long to complete. We would like to thank all those in
advance who contribute.
All the best,
Ian and Ewa
Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Cardiff.
Assistant Professor, Dept. Computer Science and CCT, LSU.
Tel: +44-781110 3142