e-Science Workbench: an Approach to Build Domain-Specific Problem Solving Environments

The coming of the e-science era provides more opportunities to improve the work of scientists by integrating sensors, resources, and services in GRID and Internet environments. We can expect much more improvement in scientists´ work if they are supported by an appropriate tool. In this paper, we propose an e-science workbench that helps scientists design and perform their e-science experiments on the GRID or internet environments without the support of programmers. Since the e-science workbench may contain many modules and functions, we adopt a layered architecture in constructing the system. In order to convince potential users of the effectiveness of using the e-science workbench, we developed two domain specific e-Science workbenches. One is a health workbench and the other is a bio workbench. We observed that we could build the u-health and bio workbenches very systematically due to the underlying middle and bottom e-science workbench layers.