To do this we exploit not only the workflow's design, but also use logged data describing the system's observed historic behavior, and incorporate information extracted about the current state of the workflow.
Our interests in this paper are to propose a methodology to automatically generate context-aware action lists for users and effectively control resource allocation based on the state of the workflow systems.
The Pipeline server saves the paused workflow status into its persistent database so users can disconnect from the server and later retrieve and explore the state of the workflow.
Furthermore, the concept of process evolution functions might become important in data science and big data applications in the context of process optimization projects, because it provides a robust feature for characterizing the state of running workflows.
However, state-of-the-art workflow languages offer a limited set of modularization mechanisms.
We introduce a Petri-Net-based state transition approach that binds states of private workflow tasks to their adjacent workflow view-task.
The coloured regions of the diagram indicate the five states of the workflow from which is visible that the majority of computing tasks execute less than one minute on the cluster system and only 14 groups contain at least one task, which computes up to 15 minutes on the cluster system.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows: a review of the state-of-the-art on workflow management systems and frameworks in general and in the field of bioinformatics in particular is presented in "Related work" section.
Finally, in order to validate and showcase the time and cost efficiency of our approach, we compare our performance with Swift, one of the most widely used and state-of-the-art high performance workflow execution frameworks.
The described network biology workflow uses state-of-the-art pathway and network analysis methods to study the rewiring of the diabetic liver.
