Architecture-Based Adaptivity Support for Service Oriented Scientific Workflows

Adaptivity is the ability of a program to change its behavior automatically according to its context. Programs over multiple scientific workflows and analytic domains have similar needs of adaptivity to handle data intensive computing. These include dynamically selecting analytical models or processes according to data sets at runtime, handling exceptions to make long running workflows reliable, and reducing large volumes of data to a suitable form for visualization. Architecture support to reuse these adaptive techniques across different scientific domains helps to enhance the workflows´ efficiency, extensibility and reliability. In this paper, a service oriented architecture framework is presented to compose adaptive scientific workflows. This framework has a core of service components and mechanisms that eases the interoperation between disparate workflows and programs that encapsulate the adaptive control logic. The uses of this framework are demonstrated by scientific workflow scenarios.