Simplifying construction of complex workflows for non-expert users of the Southern California Earthquake Center Community Modeling Environment
- 1 September 2005
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGMOD Record
- Vol. 34 (3) , 24-30
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1084805.1084811
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.Keywords
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