Simplifying construction of complex workflows for non-expert users of the Southern California Earthquake Center Community Modeling Environment

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Simplifying construction of complex workflows for non-expert users of the Southern California Earthquake Center Community Modeling Environment

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Volume 34 , Issue 3 (September 2005) table of contents

COLUMN: Special section on scientific workflows table of contents

Pages: 24 - 30

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:0163-5808

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Philip Maechling	Southern California Earthquake Center, USC, Los Angeles CA
Hans Chalupsky	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Maureen Dougherty	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Ewa Deelman	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Yolanda Gil	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Sridhar Gullapalli	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Vipin Gupta	Southern California Earthquake Center, USC, Los Angeles CA
Carl Kesselman	Southern California Earthquake Center, USC, Los Angeles CA
Jihic Kim	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Gaurang Mehta	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Brian Mendenhall	Center for High Performance Computing and Communications, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Thomas Russ	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Gurmeet Singh	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Marc Spraragen	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA
Garrick Staples	Center for High Performance Computing and Communications, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Karan Vahi	Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina del Rey, CA

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ABSTRACT

Workflow systems often present the user with rich interfaces that express all the capabilities and complexities of the application programs and the computing environments that they support. However, non-expert users are better served with simple interfaces that abstract away system complexities and still enable them to construct and execute complex workflows. To explore this idea, we have created a set of tools and interfaces that simplify the construction of workflows. Implemented as part of the Community Modeling Environment developed by the Southern California Earthquake Center, these tools, are integrated into a comprehensive workflow system that supports both domain experts as well as non expert users.

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