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The term scientific workflow has evolved over the last two decades to encompass a broad range of compositions of interdependent compute tasks and data movements. It has also become an umbrella term for processing in modern scientific…

Modern scientific discovery increasingly requires coordinating distributed facilities and heterogeneous resources, forcing researchers to act as manual workflow coordinators rather than scientists. Advances in AI leading to AI agents show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Woong Shin , Renan Souza , Daniel Rosendo , Frédéric Suter , Feiyi Wang , Prasanna Balaprakash , Rafael Ferreira da Silva

Scientific workflows facilitate the automation of data analysis, and are used to process increasing amounts of data. Therefore, they tend to be resource-intensive and long-running, leading to significant energy consumption and carbon…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kathleen West , Magnus Reid , Yehia Elkhatib , Lauritz Thamsen

Our goal is to develop a principled and general algorithmic framework for task-driven estimation and control for robotic systems. State-of-the-art approaches for controlling robotic systems typically rely heavily on accurately estimating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Vincent Pacelli , Anirudha Majumdar

A computational workflow, also known as workflow, consists of tasks that are executed in a certain order to attain a specific computational campaign. Computational workflows are commonly employed in science domains, such as physics,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Krishnan Raghavan , George Papadimitriou , Hongwei Jin , Anirban Mandal , Mariam Kiran , Prasanna Balaprakash , Ewa Deelman

With the advances in e-Sciences and the growing complexity of scientific analyses, more and more scientists and researchers are relying on workflow systems for process coordination, derivation automation, provenance tracking, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-08-27 Yong Zhao , Ioan Raicu , Ian Foster

Scientific workflows are critical to scientific data analysis and often involve computationally intensive processing of large datasets on compute clusters. As such, their execution tends to be long-running and resource-intensive, resulting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kathleen West , Youssef Moawad , Fabian Lehmann , Vasilis Bountris , Ulf Leser , Yehia Elkhatib , Lauritz Thamsen

As the amount of available data continues to grow in fields as diverse as bioinformatics, physics, and remote sensing, the importance of scientific workflows in the design and implementation of reproducible data analysis pipelines…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jonathan Bader , Fabian Skalski , Fabian Lehmann , Dominik Scheinert , Jonathan Will , Lauritz Thamsen , Odej Kao

A variety of established approaches exist for the detection of dynamic bottlenecks. Furthermore, the prediction of bottlenecks is experiencing a growing scientific interest, quantifiable by the increasing number of publications in recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Nikolai West , Joern Schwenken , Jochen Deuse

Scientific workflows are used to analyze large amounts of data. These workflows comprise numerous tasks, many of which are executed repeatedly, running the same custom program on different inputs. Users specify resource allocations for each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Fabian Lehmann , Jonathan Bader , Ninon De Mecquenem , Xing Wang , Vasilis Bountris , Florian Friederici , Ulf Leser , Lauritz Thamsen

A most important aspect in the field of traffic modeling is the simulation of bottleneck situations. For their realistic description a macroscopic multi-lane model for uni-directional freeways including acceleration, deceleration, velocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing

As spatial and temporal resolutions of scientific instruments improve, the explosion in the volume of data produced is becoming a key challenge. It can be a critical bottleneck for integration between scientific instruments at the edge and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-03 Kazutomo Yoshii , Rajesh Sankaran , Sebastian Strempfer , Maksim Levental , Mike Hammer , Antonino Miceli

Scientific research in many fields routinely requires the analysis of large datasets, and scientists often employ workflow systems to leverage clusters of computers for their data analysis. However, due to their size and scale, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Lauritz Thamsen , Yehia Elkhatib , Paul Harvey , Syed Waqar Nabi , Jeremy Singer , Wim Vanderbauwhede

Workflow technology is rapidly evolving and, rather than being limited to modeling the control flow in business processes, is becoming a key mechanism to perform advanced data management, such as big data analytics. This survey focuses on…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Georgia Kougka , Anastasios Gounaris , Alkis Simitsis

In this survey, we discuss the challenges of executing scientific workflows as well as existing Machine Learning (ML) techniques to alleviate those challenges. We provide the context and motivation for applying ML to each step of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Azita Nouri , Philip E. Davis , Pradeep Subedi , Manish Parashar

Scientific workflows are widely used to automate scientific data analysis and often involve processing large quantities of data on compute clusters. As such, their execution tends to be long-running and resource intensive, leading to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Kathleen West , Fabian Lehmann , Vasilis Bountris , Ulf Leser , Yehia Elkhatib , Lauritz Thamsen

We describe an application of belief networks to the diagnosis of bottlenecks in computer systems. The technique relies on a high-level functional model of the interaction between application workloads, the Windows NT operating system, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 John S. Breese , Russ Blake

A workflow describes the entirety of processing steps in an analysis, such as employed in many fields of physics. Workflow management makes the dependencies between individual steps of a workflow and their computational requirements…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-09-15 Caspar Schmitt , Boyang Yu , Thomas Kuhr

Experimental science is increasingly driven by instruments that produce vast volumes of data and thus a need to manage, compute, describe, and index this data. High performance and distributed computing provide the means of addressing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jim Pruyne , Valerie Hayot-Sasson , Weijian Zheng , Ryan Chard , Justin M. Wozniak , Tekin Bicer , Kyle Chard , Ian T. Foster

Workflow management systems allow the users to develop complex applications at a higher level, by orchestrating functional components without handling the implementation details. Although a wide range of workflow engines are developed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-10-06 Alexandru Costan , Corina Stratan , Eliana-Dina Tirsa , Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Valentin Cristea