Overview
- Serves as a primer for the field of scientific workflows
- Includes an extensive number of applications and case studies in bioinformatics and geovisualization domains
- Addresses the current topics related to big data and reproducible science
- Can be used as a text book for students in experimental sciences
Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS, volume 500)
Buy print copy
About this book
This book presents an agile and model-driven approach to manage scientific workflows. The approach is based on the Extreme Model Driven Design (XMDD) paradigm and aims at simplifying and automating the complex data analysis processes carried out by scientists in their day-to-day work. Besides documenting the impact the workflow modeling might have on the work of natural scientists, this book serves three major purposes: 1. It acts as a primer for practitioners who are interested to learn how to think in terms of services and workflows when facing domain-specific scientific processes. 2. It provides interesting material for readers already familiar with this kind of tools, because it introduces systematically both the technologies used in each case study and the basic concepts behind them. 3. As the addressed thematic field becomes increasingly relevant for lectures in both computer science and experimental sciences, it also provides helpful material for teachers that plan similar courses.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Extreme Model Driven Design
- Java Application Building Center
- XMDD
- applied computing
- big data
- bioinformatics
- biological data management
- cartography
- data analysis
- data management
- geovisualization
- information systems applications
- jABC
- model-driven design
- modeling
- open source software
- process management
- reproducible research
- scientific workflows
Table of contents (19 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Geovisualization Applications
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This book is part of the ‘Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)’ series, which publishes peer-reviewed proceedings of conferences and workshops. … Each paper … is well written with expert-level precision and is very informative. … this book is essentially a conference proceedings composed of well-written papers for specialists.” (M. M. Tanik, Computing Reviews, January, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Process Design for Natural Scientists
Book Subtitle: An Agile Model-Driven Approach
Editors: Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Tiziana Margaria
Series Title: Communications in Computer and Information Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45006-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-45005-5Published: 02 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45006-2Published: 19 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1865-0929
Series E-ISSN: 1865-0937
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 253
Number of Illustrations: 129 b/w illustrations
Topics: Models and Principles, Software Engineering, Simulation and Modeling, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Database Management