2017
Journal article  Open Access

HyWare: a HYbrid Workflow lAnguage for Research E-infrastructures

Candela L., Giannotti F., Grossi V., Manghi P., Trasarti R.

HyWare  Research E-infrastructure  Library and Information Sciences  Workflow Language  H.3.7 Digital Libraries 

Research e-infrastructures are "systems of systems", patchworks of tools, services and data sources, evolving over time to address the needs of the scientific process. Accordingly, in such environments, researchers implement their scientific processes by means of workflows made of a variety of actions, including for example usage of web services, download and execution of shared software libraries or tools, or local and manual manipulation of data. Although scientists may benefit from sharing their scientific process, the heterogeneity underpinning e-infrastructures hinders their ability to represent, share and eventually reproduce such workflows. This work presents HyWare, a language for representing scientific process in highly-heterogeneous e-infrastructures in terms of so-called hybrid workflows. HyWare lays in between "business process modeling languages", which offer a formal and high-level description of a reasoning, protocol, or procedure, and "workflow execution languages", which enable the fully automated execution of a sequence of computational steps via dedicated engines.

Source: D-Lib magazine 23 (2017): 8–11. doi:10.1045/january2017-candela

Publisher: Corp. for National Research Initiatives,, Reston, Va. , Stati Uniti d'America


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Computer Science in 2001 at University of Pisa and completed a Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2006 at the University of Pisa. He
joined the NeMIS Laboratory in 2001. Since then he has been involved in various EU-funded projects including CYCLADES, Open
Archives Forum, DILIGENT, DRIVER, DELOS, D4Science, D4Science-II, DL.org, EUBrazilOpenBio, iMarine, ENVRI. He was a member of
the DELOS Reference Model Technical Committee and of the OAI-ORE Liaison Group. He is currently involved in the D4Science,
D4Science-II and DL.org projects. Currently, he is the Project Manager of the BlueBRIDGE Project and CNR lead person in the

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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:366714,
	title = {HyWare: a HYbrid Workflow lAnguage for Research E-infrastructures},
	author = {Candela L. and Giannotti F. and Grossi V. and Manghi P. and Trasarti R.},
	publisher = {Corp. for National Research Initiatives,, Reston, Va. , Stati Uniti d'America},
	doi = {10.1045/january2017-candela},
	journal = {D-Lib magazine},
	volume = {23},
	pages = {8–11},
	year = {2017}
}

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