A framework for semantic composition of scientific workflows

Abstract

An important element in research on e-Science, which includes research in computational modeling, is the scientific workflow that, in general, is very extensive, comprising many computations, and forward to represent an experimental scientific procedure, generally collaborative. Because it is generally so extensive, a scientific workflow eventually becomes difficult to define. One way to facilitate the process that leads to the representation of a scientific workflow is using tools that make use of semantics to facilitate its composition. In this context, this paper presents a proposal whose main objective is to facilitate the composition of scientific workflows, considering projects in computational modeling, performing semantic search of semantic web services and incorporating these into the definition of the workflows.