[ogsa-wg] Workflow Interoperability and Sharing Survey for WFM-RG

[A S McGough]

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:

_http://bender.astro.cf.ac.uk/wfmrg/_

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.
www.cs.cf.ac.uk/user/I.J.Taylor/ & www.p2pgridbook.com 
<http://www.p2pgridbook.com>
Tel: +44-781110 3142



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